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The Cross River State Acting Chief Judge (CJ), Justice Effiom Eyo-Ita, has withdrawn the 29 protesting magistrates, who on Monday and Tuesday last week took to the streets of Calabar to protest the non-payment of their two years’ salary by Governor Ben Ayade, from sitting.
It would be recalled that Senior Magistrate Safiya Iyeh Ashipu of Odukpani Magisterial Division, had on Monday, January 4, led her two sons to the Government House, Calabar, with placards of various inscriptions, asking the governor to pay her 24-month unpaid salary.
The following day, 28 other magistrates in the same plight as Ashipu, donning their full regalia stormed the Governor’s Office in protest against the non-payment of their salary for 24 months. During the protest, one of them, Richard Bassey, collapsed and was revived by his other colleagues.
Rape: Man jailed 22 years for raping 14-year-old daughter
Mr Udo’s arrest and prosecution by the police followed a petition from a non-governmental organisation after the man’s wife reported his incestuous act to the organisation.
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A family court in Cross River State, South-south Nigeria, on Tuesday, sentenced a man to 22 years imprisonment, without the option of a fine, for raping his 14-year-old daughter. The judge, who is the acting Chief Judge of Cross River State, Eyo Ita, had earlier convicted the man for rape in December.
The convicted man, Emmanuel Thompson Udo, 47, raped his own daughter at his residence in Calabar, according to a report by