In what looks like a crackdown on immigrants in their country, Israel has started a massive deportation of Africans comprising mainly Nigerians in what they called ‘operation clean up’.


 
In the last few weeks no fewer than 50 Nigerians have been deported from the middle east country for reasons ranging from what they termed illegal stay, work permit and other flimsy excuses.
 
Due to the recent series of offensive and racist statements made by Israeli politicians, African diplomats in Israel are afraid to walk down the street, said African ambassadors in Israel during a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon.
 
The meeting, which was attended by the ambassadors of Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast, was recently held in the Foreign Ministry’s offices in Jerusalem, Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli newspaper reported.This was after the wife of the Ghanian ambassador was arrested by Israeli police where she was on shopping in Tel Aviv.
 
Israeli’s claim that  immigrants are  responsible for the  ongoing series of assaults and muggings committed in their country is a way of calling a dog a bad name in order to hang it.
 
Reports from  Tel Aviv where most of the immigrants live show that most of them now hide inside their apartments without going to work for fear of being arrested while on the street. ’Many Nigerians living  in Israel are very law abiding and go  their  normal businesses’ said an official of the Nigerian community who doesn’t want his name in print.
 
The recent crackdown has seen Isreaeli authorities
 
arresting Nigerians with families and taking them to detention camps sometimes with their very under aged children where they face harsh punitive measures and untold hardship before being deported  to their country.
 
To worsen the situation, the Nigerian Embassy officials have never intervened in this ugly incidents being meted on Nigerians, our source revealed
 
Mr Iweka [real name withheld] from Enugu state  said he has been living in Israel legally since  twelve years working in a restaurant but was deported on the orders of his employer who wouldn’t want to pay his accumulated gratuity. He was arrested in his apartment by over twenty security agents and chained both legs and hands and bundled into a van even after showing them his valid papers and driven to prison. His lawyer took his case to court and after spending two months in the prison under harsh conditions was deported without concluding his case. He described is ordeal as a racist, barbaric and unhuman.
 
Member of the Israeli Knesset  Shlomo Molla (Kadima) has  warned that, “The State has failed to do its diplomatic due diligence .No one wants to migrate here if they’re doing well… It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try to send them back, but these events – abusing them like that – that’s wrong.
 
“I’ve seen case where people where physically hurt. If that’s not incitement – what is?” he wondered.
 
Member if Israeli Knesset K Dov Khenin (Hadash) read testimonies given by teens suspected of assaulting migrants, detailing the violent abuse they had perpetrated. He further deplored the government’s actions against them.

Vanguard

TWENTY-SEVEN Nigerians deported from Spain for alleged criminal offences ranging from armed robbery, drug trafficking, forgery to illegal migration, have been handed over to the police.
 
A statement by the Force deputy spokesman, Mr. Frank Mba, yesterday said the deportees were received at the international wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.


The statement added that the deportees who arrived aboard a chartered Spanish Airline flight were received at the airport at 07:30 am on the said date by officers from the INTERPOL National Central Bureau, Lagos.
 
Mba, however, stated that after thorough investigation by a combined team of officers from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the police, the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), 14 of the deportees were found not culpable for the alleged offences for which they were deported by the Spanish authorities.
 
  According to the police, the 14 persons had since been released to their relatives on bail while the 13 liable ones had been sent to the relevant security agencies for further investigation and prosecution.
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http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news/60071-police-receive-27-nigerian-deportees-from-spain.html
 
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Erosion threatens Abia communities!

By Ugochukwu Ugoji-Eke, Umuahia 3 hours 22 minutes ago

 
The people of Oguduasa, Isuikwuato Local Government Area of Abia State, have been cut off from other communities by erosion.
 
The erosion, which is believed to be as deep as a 20-storey building, has swept away the road connecting the community from Akara Junction to the state university at Uturu.
 
It was learnt that the pit has claimed many lives and property.
 
The palliative work earlier done by the Federal Government in partnership with the state government has collapsed.
 
Road users are forced to divert to bush paths.
 
At Bende, erosion has also eaten deep into the road connecting the community from Umuahia to Ohafia and Arochukwu.
 
The erosion may destroy many houses, including that of a prominent politician, Chief Benjamin Nmeregini, if left unattended. Both communities are calling on the Federal Government to come to their aid.
 
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news/59746-erosion-threatens-abia-communities.html

Robbery suspect killed in Delta!

By Polycarp Orosevwotu, Warri 3 hours 14 minutes ago

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A robbery suspect was killed yesterday by the police on the Warri-Sapele Road in Delta State.
 
The suspect, who is said to be a member of a four-man robbery gang, was killed during a gun battle between the gang and the police.
 
Enerhen Divisional Police Officer Steve Yabanet said a police surveillance team noticed the gang in a Mazda car near a bank, waiting for people to come out of the bank.
 
On sighting the police, Yabanet said the gang drove off. He said the police went after them and a gun battle ensured.
 
Yabanet said the suspect’s body hads been deposited in a mortuary. He said a locally made gun, one cartridge, a handset and a wallet containing a national identity card were recovered from the suspect.
 
Police Spokesman Charles Muka confirmed the incident. 

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news/59753-robbery-suspect-killed-in-delta.html
 

Imo: Reeling under kidnappers’ onslaught !


Friday, 31 August 2012 00:00 From Charles Ogugbuaja, Owerri News - Metro

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IMO State is reeling under  a scourge  as a result of which many now live in fear.

Kidnapping, which  started among militants in the creeks of the Niger Delta has found fertile ground in Imo State and now anxiety and uncertainty are almost palpable across the land.

In ‘the Eastern Heartland’ the fear of kidnappers is the beginning of wisdom as people dread being abducted almost anywhere and their families forced to pay huge ransoms for heir freedom, which ,unfortunately, is not guaranteed.

Almost anyone can be kidnapped : medical doctors,journalists, politicians, top civil servants, traditional rulers and even women have fallen  prey.

A number of kidnap victims have been killed, even after their families paid  the huge sums of money demanded by their abductors, while  some  have  had the special misfortune of being abducted , not once,  but twice.

The litany of victims is long and also representative of all corners of the state. Without necessarily following a chronological order, some of the most notable incidents include last year’s  kidnapping of Dr. Uche Anyanwu from Mbano. His abductors demanded N30 million  which his family struggled to raise. After several weeks, they paid the ransom only for Anyanwu’s lifeless body  to be found shortly after.

The same fate befell Dr. Amako, from Ohii, Owerri West who was kidnapped and shot on the leg. The gunmen  who demanded several millions as ransom held him for days , until  one day  they dumped him by a roadside . The wound on his leg had become dangerously infected. From where he was dumped, Dr. Amako was   taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri and a  few hours later, he died.

A former Chief of Staff and later Commissioner for Health, Dr. Vin Udokwu was kidnapped  and held for several months, even after paying the ransom. He refuses to disclose what he paid.

About the same period, a former Speaker of  Imo State House of Assembly, Chief Godfrey Dikeocha, was also  abducted and held  for months, most of which he spent blindfolded. An  undisclosed ransom was paid and he was freed. Sources said he went blind temporarily until  quick medical attention restored his sight.

Traditional rulers have not been spared as Eze Samuel Agunwa Ohiri of Obi Orodo, Mbaitoli was kidnapped, but not before his abductors shot dead his father and brother.

Another ruler, Eze Chijioke Okwara in Orlu spent several weeks in captivity and refuses to disclose what he paid as ransom.

The kidnappers have scant regard for places of worship.

The newly recognized Eze Oliver Nwaozuzu of Awo Mbieri and his wife were attending Mass on a Sunday when armed men stormed the church  and whisked the couple away. Eze Nwozuzu was held for days until an undisclosed ransom was paid.

Mrs. Stella Odimegwu, wife of the former Managing Director of Nigeria Breweries Limited and at present, Chairman National Population Commission (NPC), Chief Festus Odumegwu, was kidnapped while she was worshipping in their village church in Orsu, about two years ago. Reports said a fat ransom was  paid for her  freedom.

In Aboh Mbaise, the wife of a former Local Council Chairman, Richmond Osuji’s was also kidnapped last year and an undisclosed ransom paid before her release.

Also, a journalist, Chief Ndubuizu Ugorji of Imo Broadcasting Corporation Television was in June this year kidnapped just in front of his abode at Orji, Owerri North Local Council of the state.

Sources told The Guardian that friends, fellow workers and relatives raised about N2 million to secure his release.

Pastor Anselem Iwuala, was last year abducted as he was travelling along Okpala-Mbaise Road to his home, Egberede Nguru, Aboh Mbaise. He spent about seven days with his abductors as negotiation for payment of N100 million was going on. When his family  could only pay N500,000 of the amount demanded by his abductors,  he was killed.

Another ruler in the state, Eze Stanley Akunatoof Umueze Abazu, Ogwa Mbaitoli Local Council was killed after an attempt to abduct him failed..

A retired Superintendent of Police  Moses Ejeka, was kidnapped more than a year ago and he spent almost three months in captivity.

A lady, Ugo Mma, was kidnapped along MCC Road, Owerri until a  ransom was paid.

A two-time member of the Imo State House of Assembly, Celestine Ngobiwu was kidnapped twice.

In one of the incidents, his orderly was said to have been killed.

Two other personalities in the state, a Permanent Secretary, Iyke Amafili and a former Imo State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress  Steve Ibe, had also been kidnapped.

They were held for days until undisclosed ransoms were paid.

A High Court Judge was kidnapped in Owerri more than a year ago and another, Justice Ngozi Okpara,   shot along the popular Tetlow Road, Owerri by suspected kidnappers.He survived  after treatment.

A Community leader in Awo Omama, Chidiebere Nwanyanwu, was kidnapped and an undisclosed ransom paid before his release.

Just last Sunday August 26, 2012,  the Principal Secretary in the office of the Imo State Deputy Governor, E menike Ihekwoaba,  was kidnapped at Amaraku,  Isiala Mbano .

He was on his way to his village in Nkwerre and  had alighted to buy something when the kidnappers surrounded him and bundled the massively-built man into the boot of their car and sped off. His wife and driver escaped. But the government seems , at last , to have picked-up   the gauntlet.

The Commissioner of Police, Christopher Dega now an Assistant Inspector General (AIG), told The Guardian that the Command has devised a technology to track down the kidnappers. He refused to disclose it.

“We have a technology to trap them. We can not disclose that. They are in for a  hard time”,  he said.

Also, the state governor ,  Rochas Okorocha says any traditional ruler in whose domain there is an incident of kidnapping risks losing his salary and would be suspended.    Any building used for such purpose would be confiscated by the state government, while any kidnapper caught would face capital punishment based on the law passed by the state Assembly.

Meanwhile, soldiers of 34 Field Artillery Brigade, Obinze, have begun  a massive man hunt of kidnappers in forests in all the 27 councils of the state.

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97270:imo-reeling-under-kidnappers-onslaught-&catid=3:metro&Itemid=558

 

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Bankers and residents of Awka, the Anambra state capital, are gripped by fear, following the kidnap of the Manager of a branch of Fidelity Bank, Mr. Tochukwu Nnadi.
 
He was abducted about 7:30am yesterday in Iyiagu Estate on his way to the office.
 
One of Nnadi’s colleagues, who did not want to be named, said the kidnappers were yet to contact anyone.
 
He said: “We do not know what Anambra State is turning to. They wanted to close the branch because of the rising insecurity, but some of us summoned the courage to continue working here.
 
“Nnadi was coming to the office when he was abducted. We learnt that his kidnappers laid ambush in two cars, a Chrysler and “End of Discussion”, with the doors open.
 
“People said when they sighted Nnadi’s car; they blocked him and took him away. Honestly, everybody is afraid.”
 
Police spokesman Raphael Uzoigwe said the kidnap had not been reported.
 

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news/59585-bank-manager-kidnapped-in-awka.html

Son Dies Chasing Father’s Kidnappers In Onitsha!

AWKA—A YOUNG man in his early twenties, Mr. Junior Egbunike, was, yesterday, confirmed dead following injuries sustained while pursuing his father’s kidnappers at the commercial town of Onitsha.
 
Mr. Amulunanma Egbunike was returning home with his wife and son simply known as Junior after the day’s business at the weekend in Onitsha and as they got very close to their house at the Onitsha Inland Town, hoodlums suspected to be kidnappers blocked his car and dragged him into their own car and drove off.
 
His son, who was driving his father’s car, pursued them with his mother also in the car. But barely 400 meters away, the car got involved in a head on collision with another car and both mother and son sustained serious injuries.
 
Junior, who had been in coma since the incident, gave up the ghost yesterday at a hospital in Onitsha, while his mother had been discharged from hospital.
 
With the death of Junior, the Egbunike family has lost the only child left, having lost the family’s only daughter some years ago.
 
Meantime, the kidnapped Egbunike is yet to regain his freedom

http://naijamayor.com/son-dies-chasing-fathers-kidnappers-in-onitsha/