AERIAL VIEW OF THE FLOODED AREAS

OMG my Community for the matter i went and took this photos myself let it not be dem say dem say..
The Southern part of delta State, ( The Isoko) is totally gone with water(flood) at as yesterday i took the below photos, And the rate at which the water flows is much i.e it increases every minutes.
This area's are Oleh, Uzere, Irri, Emede, Igbide, Enhwe, Olomoro As well as Ozoro. This is really getting out of hands, Na wetin na, My own House is gone on water see as it is on the photos below.
I will upload the video soon which navigate both outside inside of houses
Water Flooding

http://www.ogusbaba.com/2012/10/more-photo-updates-from-delta-state.html

Father squanders money raised for the treatment of 1-year-old son.

There is a sad development in the case of Baby Kelechi, who has a hole in his heart and paralysis on his left hand. Here is what Linda Ikeji is reporting:
 
 
 
In June 2012, I put up a post here asking you guys to help a little baby called Kelechi – the little angel with a hole in the heart and paralysis on his left hand.
 
Baby Kelechi (now 1 year and 3months) was only about two weeks old when his parent noticed some changes in him which included fast breathing, sleepless nights and frequent fatigue amongst other things. He had problem ingesting food and had to be fed through his nose. Hospitals they visited gave several diagnosis which included Malaria, Fever and related ailments until they were referred to LUTH. On the 21st of October 2011, the result of the diagnosis revealed that Kelechi had a grade 3/6 Systolic Murmur. Simpler terms describes it as an unusual noise in the heart commonly known as a hole in the heart.
 
He’s got some sort of paralysis on his left hand and finds it difficult to stand. Doctor’s says he might get brain damaged if he doesn’t get treatment as soon as possible.
 
Kelechi needed about N4 million for quick surgery in India and a lot of you came to his aid.
 
We were able to raise some money for the little boy, but the people in charge of the cause just sent me really bad news. The money was raised through Kelechi’s father’s account and what I hear now is that the man squandered the money…all of it!. He has been arrested and currently at Ikoyi Prisons pending when he’s able to post N500k bail. The Commissioner of Police signed the petition against him through the PPRO’s office. He will be charged to court soon.
 
I know what y’all are thinking; how’s baby Kelechi? He’s still sick, he has not been treated…and this makes me so sad. How a father can do this to his own sick child is beyond me. Truly sad. Will keep you guys updated about this case.
 
 
http://lindaikeji.blogspot.com/2012/09/baby-kelechis-father-squanders-money.html

This man is very wicked..how can you have the heart to do this to your own blood..

 

Kingpin arrested, another on the run
 
From GEOFFREY ANYANWU, Awka and DAVID ONWUCHEKWA, Nnewi
 


The Anambra State Police command yesterday discovered another private armoury this time at Umuihefula, Umuaku village in Uli, Ihiala Local Government Area. This is barely two weeks after a combined team of Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives in state and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP’s) Special Task Force on heinous crimes recorded a major breakthrough in the fight against kidnappers and armed robbers.
 
Yesterday’s operation which was carried out by the same SARS under the leadership James Nwafor (SP), saw the policemen arresting one of the kingpins, Emeka Ezekude in whose custody was the arms and ammunition. However, another suspect whose name was given as Sunday Nwachukwu from Ezumeri Oraifite in Ekwusigo Local Government Area was said to be on the run.
 
A combined team of SARS on a tip-off was said to have cordoned off the home of the suspect, Emeka Ezekude, where two AK47 rifles, one type 06 rifle, one rocket grenade, 27 AK47 magazines, three rocket propellers, 770 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition and nine chains used to lock up kidnap victims were recovered. Daily Sun gathered that Ezekude’s arrest was made possible due to information supplied by his relations.
 
The rifles allegedly owned by Sunday Nwachukwu were kept in the custody of Emeka, who allegedly escaped when the police arrived but was later arrested as he went to one of the new generation banks to withdraw money possibly to enable him to escape. The arms and ammunition, according to the police, were like the Oraifite incident, recovered from two giant plastic drums buried in the hideout of the suspect at Uli.
 
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Ralphael Uzoigwe, confirmed the arrest. He said effort was being made to track down Sunday from Ezumeri-Oraifite in Ekwusigo Local Government Area. Also commenting, a senior Police officer who spoke in confidence told newsmen that God has indeed come to the rescue of the command and taken control of affairs.
 
He said, “You know, it is the duty of the Commissioner of Police, Ballah Nasarawa or the PPRO to say these things, even the SARS commander who led operations is not allowed to talk by the CP on such issues. But the truth is that the command made another inroad today (yesterday) by discovering another arms cache in this state at Uli.
 
My brother, God is beginning to intervene in this state and I pray it continues.” He, however, refused to give details of the latest recovery, urging the newsmen to wait for the appropriate authorities to do so.
 
On September 3, 2012 when Ifedike (Ofeakwu) was arrested at his home in Ifite Oraifite, the Police recovered from his underground armoury 27 AK47 riffles, one K2 rifle, two type-06 rifles, one GPMG, one rocket launcher, 17 rockets, six pump action guns, three Dane guns, one Berretta pistol and 13 rocket grenades.
 
They also recovered from Ifedike who allegedly confessed having introduced kidnapping in the South-East 12,800 rounds of Ak47 live ammunition, 530 rounds of LAR ammunition, 95 rounds of GPMG live ammunition, 1, 000 rounds of K2 live ammunition and 143 magazines, totaling 14, 425 rounds of live ammunition, just as they recovered nine chains they used to lock victims.

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Bandits on the loose in Imo.

September 16, 2012 by Ozioma Ubabukoh 20 Comments



Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha
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OZIOMA UBABUKOH writes that in recent times, Imo State citizens and law enforcement agents now live in fear following indiscriminate killings and kidnappings, for which the government has offered cash incentives for information
 
For Mr. Christian Iwunze, life was about family. He was the second of two siblings and the only son. But, as if to compensate for his parents’ slim family, he did not only opt for early marriage, he also had more children than they did.
 
A baby girl opened the womb for the family. Two more girl children followed in quick succession. After the usual trepidation of “are we going to end up with an all-female family,” a set of twin boys was born. If you thought that was enough, then wait for this: another three girls came in quick succession. Then, another set of twin boys!
 
Blessed with such a large family, Iwunze knew no life outside the family apart from his job in an oil servicing company.
 
Though Iwunze and wife, Catherine, did not obtain university education, virtually all their children do, with some acquiring postgraduate degrees in engineering, while one of their daughters is pursuing a doctoral degree.
 
For a man that had spent all his life in the training of his children, Iwunze, an indigene of Umueze, Ehime-Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State was elated when one of his first set of twin boys, Okechukwu, announced his wedding. Iwunze took it as his personal responsibility to ensure that this happened without any breach.
 
Okechukwu’s wedding to Miss Uchechi Orji was fixed for Saturday, September 5, but four days before the event, on Tuesday, August 28, tragedy struck! A group of five unidentified men shot Iwunze to death just at the gate of his residence on 19, Umundula Orji Street, Off Urattah Road, Owerri, Imo State.
 
Iwunze was killed two days after suspected hired assassins murdered a former director of the Central Bank of Nigeria; and one day after a politician was murdered, all in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
 
The suspected assassins killed the former CBN director, Mr. Charles Nwosu, at the Ekeukwu Central Market on Douglas Road. A police inspector who engaged the hoodlums in a gun battle and two unidentified persons were also killed.
 
Their killers operated in a RAV 4 Sports Utility Vehicle and, mysteriously, the killers of Iwunze also operated in a RAV 4 Sports Utility Vehicle. Could it be that the killers of the erstwhile CBN director also killed Iwunze? If they were the same killers, what was the connection? These questions have remained unanswered. Worse still, law enforcements agents in Imo State seem overwhelmed by the growing insecurity.
 
Before now, several people, including traditional rulers, businessmen, politicians and public office holders had, at various times and places, either been kidnapped for ransom or murdered in cold blood for reasons yet unknown.  Consequently, especially in areas that do not have enough police presence, night life has nose-dived in the state.
 
One of such victims was Pastor Anselm Iwuala, who was still murdered by his abductors despite a N500,000 paid by his family for his freedom.
 
Iwuala was travelling to his country home in Egberede Nguru, Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, when he was abducted by gunmen on the very busy Okpala-Mbaise road. That was in June.
 
Again, on the night of May 7, 2012, the traditional ruler of Umueze-Abazu, Ogwa, Mbaitoli LGA, Eze Stanley Akuneto, was allegedly murdered in cold blood in his palace by two gunmen who reportedly rode on a motorcycle.
 
And as if to underscore the crass helplessness of the situation, even the governor’s elder sister, her husband, members of her household and all the occupants of the three cars on her convoy escaped death narrowly on May 19, 2012, when armed robbers opened fire on the vehicle in which they were travelling at Egbeada, Mbaitoli LGA.
 
Indeed, the list of dastardly acts is endless.
 
When our correspondent visited the police station in Owerri North, where the matter concerning Iwunze’s killing was referred to, the police officers on duty all refused to speak. It was also difficult to ascertain the identities of the officers being talked to, as they each covered their name tags with handkerchiefs.
 
In response to our correspondent’s enquiry, one of them simply said, “The matter has been transferred to the state CID. Go there and find out what is happening.”
 
The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Adisa Bolanta, also did not comment on the matter. He would not take his calls and did not respond to text messages sent to his mobile telephone.
 
Iwunze’s first child, Mrs. Peace Okeke, said, “My father was a peaceful man and was not a politician. He diligently went about his work. He was once offered a chieftaincy title because of his contribution to his community, but he rejected it,” Mrs. Okeke explained.
 
She said, “He was even offered a knighthood in the church but he also rejected it. He kept on saying that he was not interested in receiving titles or holding positions, but only wanted to help his people and serve God.
 
“I just don’t know where this is coming from. From the stories we have been hearing, it is becoming obvious that people were paid to kill my father. What for, I don’t know. It is still a mystery to us.”
 
Despite the sad issue, the family went ahead with the wedding, consoled by the fact that their late father would not have had it otherwise.
 
In the interim, Iwunze’s widow, Catherine, has yet to find her voice. She is still in shock and, according to one of her daughters, Peace, she has remained in a state of shock since the incident.
 
Okechukwu’s twin brother, Emeka, expressed concern that the police have yet to come up with concrete finding since their father’s death.
 
Emeka said, “We have been the ones reminding them that they need to investigate the matter. They have been so reluctant to interrogate any of us. We had to compel them to remove the car my father rode in when he was killed, which they only did on Tuesday, a week after the incident.
 
“I am surprised at the action of the police. Those who killed my father overtook his car and waited at our gate; and when he tried to drive into the compound, they rushed out and shot at the tyres. Then, two of them dragged my father out of the car, leaving his 20-year-old apprentice, Cletus Ikeadi, behind.
 
“They took him to their jeep and as soon as one of the remaining three assassins who stayed behind in the jeep identified him, they rained bullets on him. But till date, the police have been acting as though nothing happened and everyone in Owerri is now scared of walking on the street.”
 
Meanwhile, the Imo State Government, in its efforts to curb crime in the state, has concluded arrangements to launch emergency rapid response scheme, especially to curb kidnapping and assassinations.
 
Governor Rochas Okorocha disclosed this when the new Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adisa Bolanta paid him a visit earlier in the month.
 
Okorocha informed the new police commissioner that he would ask the Inspector General of Police to post more policemen to the state, especially in local government areas which are currently underpoliced.
 
The governor noted that the security challenges in the state included kidnapping, vandalism, assassinations, among others; urging the new police commissioner to brace up to the challenges, with the aim of restoring peace to the beleaguered state.
 
In his response during a tour of some South-East states recently, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, urged the governor to create more jobs for Imo people. This, according to him, would help in reducing crime in the state.
 
He promised to assist the governor and Imo people in their bid to reduce crimes in the state.
 
The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Security Matters, Mr. Okey Okorocha, said in order to reduce the crime rate, the Imo State Government had initiated an incentive — giving N1m to anybody who could give useful information leading to the arrest of kidnapers in the state, while any person that provides information for the recovery of guns would be awarded N50,000.
 
The state government has also offered insurance scheme to members of the local vigilante groups that may, in the course of duty, either sustain injuries or die.
 
Governemnt said an undisclosed amount of money would be paid as compensation to the bereaved family.
 
The aide also revealsed that the state government had introduced a radio programme where callers were provided with information on security measures in the state.
 
He revealed that Americans and Israeli agencies were training some persons on how to combat kidnappers.
 
He said, “As soon as these people conclude their training, kidnapping will be over in the state.”

http://www.punchng.com/feature/bandits-on-the-loose-in-imo/

FORMER Minister of Interior and owner of integrated Oil and Gas Limited Captain Emmanuel Iheanacho was yesterday arrested over his involvement in  the hijack of a vessel\M.T. Grace’ laden with suspected stolen petroleum products.
 


Disclosing this to  newsmen in Lagos, Director General of the Nigerian Maritime  Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)  Mr. Patrick Akpobolokemi said that the search for the sponsors of these pirates has led to the tracing of the stolen products to integrated oil and gas tank farm.

Akpobolokemi who represented by NIMASA’s  Executive Director in charge of maritime labour services and Cabotage Barr. Obi Nwabueze said that the premises of integrated has been sealed off pending investigation.
 
He  said NIMASA has come to the realisation that behind the facade there are the kingpins and the big men who facilitate piracy adding the agency in collaboration with other security operatives will unravel the people behind the sale, purchase and storage of the stolen products.
 
“You recalled we had cause to parade some pirates here and we did say that we were going to continue to look for those who were behind these pirates because we came to the realisation that behind the facade there are the kingpins and the big men who facilitate piracy.
 
“So in line with our promise to the Nigerian public, we intensified our search for the big men behind the scene  and we are happy to tell you today  that we have  been able to trace them to  a company, a major company  integrated oil and gas.
 
“The products that were stolen from the activities of piracy  were conveyed  and stored at integrated oil and gas. As we speak we have sealed off the company and we have arrested the top management of the company.�http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/09/ex-minister-ihenacho-arrested-over-stolen-petroleum-products/

Robbers steal N2m from Anambra ministry

 By Nwanosike Onu07/09/2012 00:00:00

 
Three robbers on Wednesday stole N2 million from the premises of the Anambra State Ministry of Lands.
 
The incident occurred about 12 noon.
 
The Nation gathered that the suspects trailed two people from a new generation bank in Awka, where the money was withdrawn, to the ministry.
 
A source said: “Immediately they arrived in the ministry, the hoodlums stopped them. They quietly collected the polythene bag containing the money at gun point and left the premises.”
 
It was learnt that the money was withdrawn by a director in the ministry, but no one could tell what the money was meant for.
 
A source said the Commissioner for Lands, Mr. Okoli Akirika, was not aware of the withdrawal and was embarrassed when he learnt about the incident.
 
The source said: “Only the said director can explain why the money was withdrawn. You know a lot of deals go on in the ministry without the knowledge of the commissioner. May be it was one of such deals that involved a few persons.”
 
When The Nation visited the ministry yesterday about 11.45am, its two gates were locked. Visitors were not allowed in by security men, who said they were acting on an order from the ministry.
 
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news/60600-robbers-steal-n2m-from-anambra-ministry.html