Meanwhile the number of survivors still stands at 13. National Emergency Management Agency Southwest spokesman Ibrahim Farinloye, while speaking to newsmen at the rescue site at about 7.30pm, said: “Operations concluded at 7.20pm with 34 dead and 13 rescued after reaching ground zero. Investigation on the cause of the collapse has started by various federal and state agencies.”
Former military Head of
State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, retd; yesterday owned up to fathering a love
child with the late public relations expert, Princess Edith Ike Okongwu,
bringing to an end the 48-year-old paternity dispute over Musa Gowon.
Musa Gowon.
Musa Gowon.
Musa, who returned to Nigeria at the end of last year, after about 23
years in a United States prison, was acknowledged by Gen. Gowon upon the
report of a conclusive DNA test.
The paternity dispute was the subject of a legal action that reached the
Supreme Court in Nigeria, which Okongwu won.
However, execution of the judgment was thwarted by the arrest of Musa by
United States law enforcement officials in Dallas on the charge of
importing heroin into that country. The young Musa was sentenced to 27
years in prison and was only released last November on compassionate
ground and good behaviour.
He was said to have pursued graduate school from prison and was of
exemplary behaviour.
In 2003, while in US custody he lost his mother, a leading socialite in
Nigeria who was also a one-time public relations manager of Guinness
Nigeria Plc.
Both the former Head of State and Okongwu were friends in the 60s.
Gowon later married Victoria Zakari, a nurse, on April 19, 1969.
In acknowledging Musa as his son in a statement issued yesterday, Gen.
Gowon, now 81 nevertheless asked for privacy after a very difficult
period.
He said: “Following years of doubts and speculation, a DNA test was
recently conducted to ascertain the paternity of Musa Gowon, who
recently returned to the country.
”The results of the tests were conclusive, and they confirm his
paternity. We, the family, are working to assist in his rehabilitation
following a very difficult period in his life.
”As we look forward to the future with faith in God, we request that our
privacy be respected.”
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EKU—THE Nigerian Army
Unit Commander stationed at Ovre-Eku community, Ethiope East Local
Government Area, Delta State, Lt. E. D. Oworobo, has told a police
source that the reason he ordered his men to flog the women who had
embarked on a peaceful protest over a disputed land claimed by PRESCO
Oil Company, was because they attempted to disarm his men.
Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai
Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai
Oworobo and his men of the 4th Brigade Command, Benin-City, Edo State,
had last Wednesday, flogged and kicked hundreds of women protesting at
Ovre-Eku (Iwevbo) community over a land which had been in dispute for
years between Edo and Delta states.
The source who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Oworobo had
contacted the District Officer, DO, of Eku Police station, Mr. Andrew
Efejedia, in an attempt to exonerate himself and his men of any wrong
doing in the incident, where he claimed that he had no option than to
order his men to use minimal force to disperse the protesters who had
tried to disarm his men.
According to the source, Oworobo had asked the DO, “Don’t you know it is
a crime to carry a charm according to the Criminal Code of Nigeria?”
Meanwhile, Lt. Oworobo has also threatened to deal with the Warri
correspondents of The Authority and The Nation newspapers, Theophilus
Onojeghen and Bolaji Ogundele, both of whom had contacted him to know
what actually transpired between his men and the protesting women.
The offence of the journalists was their temerity to contact him for the
military’s side of the incident.
In separate reactions to the journalists, an angry Lt Oworobo had
described them as idiots and madmen, allegedly saying: “You’re an idiot.
You’re a mad man. Why are you calling me? So I should report to you
abi? Who are you to call me? If you ever call me in your life, I’ll deal
mercilessly with you.”
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/why-we-flogged-protesting-women-in-delta-army-unit-commander/
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THE Nigerian Army Unit
Commander stationed at Ovre-Eku community, Ethiope East Local Government
Area, Delta State, Lt. E. D. Oworobo, has told a police source that the
reason he ordered his men to flog the women who had embarked on a
peaceful protest over a disputed land claimed by PRESCO Oil Company, was
because they attempted to disarm his men.
Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai
Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai
Oworobo and his men of the 4th Brigade Command, Benin-City, Edo State,
had last Wednesday, flogged and kicked hundreds of women protesting at
Ovre-Eku (Iwevbo) community over a land which had been in dispute for
years between Edo and Delta states.
The source who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Oworobo had
contacted the District Officer, DO, of Eku Police station, Mr. Andrew
Efejedia, in an attempt to exonerate himself and his men of any wrong
doing in the incident, where he claimed that he had no option than to
order his men to use minimal force to disperse the protesters who had
tried to disarm his men.
According to the source, Oworobo had asked the DO, “Don’t you know it is
a crime to carry a charm according to the Criminal Code of Nigeria?”
Meanwhile, Lt. Oworobo has also threatened to deal with the Warri
correspondents of The Authority and The Nation newspapers, Theophilus
Onojeghen and Bolaji Ogundele, both of whom had contacted him to know
what actually transpired between his men and the protesting women.
The offence of the journalists was their temerity to contact him for the
military’s side of the incident.
In separate reactions to the journalists, an angry Lt Oworobo had
described them as idiots and madmen, allegedly saying: “You’re an idiot.
You’re a mad man. Why are you calling me? So I should report to you
abi? Who are you to call me? If you ever call me in your life, I’ll deal
mercilessly with you.”
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/why-we-flogged-protesting-women-in-delta-army-unit-commander/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/why-we-flogged-protesting-women-in-delta-army-unit-commander/
THE Nigerian Army Unit
Commander stationed at Ovre-Eku community, Ethiope East Local Government
Area, Delta State, Lt. E. D. Oworobo, has told a police source that the
reason he ordered his men to flog the women who had embarked on a
peaceful protest over a disputed land claimed by PRESCO Oil Company, was
because they attempted to disarm his men.
Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai
Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai
Oworobo and his men of the 4th Brigade Command, Benin-City, Edo State,
had last Wednesday, flogged and kicked hundreds of women protesting at
Ovre-Eku (Iwevbo) community over a land which had been in dispute for
years between Edo and Delta states.
The source who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Oworobo had
contacted the District Officer, DO, of Eku Police station, Mr. Andrew
Efejedia, in an attempt to exonerate himself and his men of any wrong
doing in the incident, where he claimed that he had no option than to
order his men to use minimal force to disperse the protesters who had
tried to disarm his men.
According to the source, Oworobo had asked the DO, “Don’t you know it is
a crime to carry a charm according to the Criminal Code of Nigeria?”
Meanwhile, Lt. Oworobo has also threatened to deal with the Warri
correspondents of The Authority and The Nation newspapers, Theophilus
Onojeghen and Bolaji Ogundele, both of whom had contacted him to know
what actually transpired between his men and the protesting women.
The offence of the journalists was their temerity to contact him for the
military’s side of the incident.
In separate reactions to the journalists, an angry Lt Oworobo had
described them as idiots and madmen, allegedly saying: “You’re an idiot.
You’re a mad man. Why are you calling me? So I should report to you
abi? Who are you to call me? If you ever call me in your life, I’ll deal
mercilessly with you.”
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/why-we-flogged-protesting-women-in-delta-army-unit-commander/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/why-we-flogged-protesting-women-in-delta-army-unit-commander/
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