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#EndSARS: Man Demands N50m Compensation From Police
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Members of Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry




A 47-year-old man, Anthony Ogbevon, on Friday, approached the Edo Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Victims of SARS and Related Abuses in Benin, seeking financial compensation of N50 million.

In seeking for the compensation, Ogbevon alleged that he was wrongly paraded as a criminal suspect by the Police on June 8, 2020.

Narrating his ordeal,  the petitioner, said he was arrested and dragged to the police station by some vigilante group on the allegation that he was a kidnapper because he refused to grant them their request.


 
He said that when the police arrived, instead of investigating the said allegation, he was arrested, detained, and paraded alongside other criminal suspects, just as his vehicle was also impounded by the police.

“It is a case of unlawful seizure of my vehicle. After the arrest, the police did not wait to investigate before they paraded me as a kidnapper and an armed robber.


“I was arrested on Sunday, June 7, 2020. On Monday, June 8, I  was one of those paraded at the police headquarters as an armed robber and a kidnapper. After that, I was thrown back into the cell.

“On Tuesday, after some hours, they took my statement before going to the scene of the crime in Idu village at Upper Sakponba, in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government of the state.

“At the end of the day, the recommendation of the Investigating Police Officer, (IPO) clearly vindicated me that I was accused falsely by the so-called vigilante in that village because I was going to my own village to see my aged mother and my farm.


 
“They begged me to help them take kidnapped victims to Benin, which I refused because I was going to my village.

“When I was coming back, I picked a teacher in my village and seven seasonal Hausa farmers.

“When I got back to Idu village on my way back, the same vigilante said I disobeyed their chairman. Consequently,  they started beating me, dragged me out, collected my N12,500 and said, I was carrying kidnappers.


“They dragged my passengers out and started beating them, except the teacher.

“At the end of the day, they called the police that they have arrested armed robbers and kidnappers. We were at the police headquarters until 7 p.m.

“The IPO, after his investigation, said I was falsely accused because of malice and that I should be considered for bail.

“They charged me to court, and I was taken to court along with others in my car on June 18, 2020. I remained in the Correctional Centre until the DPP advice came that I had no case to answer.

“When I came out, I demanded my vehicle, they refused to give it to me, saying that the court didn’t order that it should be released,” Ogbevon said.


He said he decided to approach the panel for justice.

“We are demanding for N50 million as compensation and consequential order that the vehicle should be released to me,” he said.


 
However, when the location of the vehicle turned into a debate, Chairman of the panel, Justice Ada Ehigiamusoe (rtd) sent some of the members to the state police command to ascertain whether it was still there or not as claimed by the petitioner.

This was when the police counsel claimed ignorance of the whereabouts of the impounded vehicle.

Thereafter, Ehigiamusoe adjourned sitting until Monday, Jan. 11.
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Grant Executive Pardon To Dariye, Nyame Jang, Gyang Appeal To President Buhari
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A former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Jonah Jang and the Senator representing Plateau North, Istifanus Gyang, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to please grant executive pardon to the ex-governor of the state, Sen. Joshua Dariye, who is in prison.

They equally appealed to the president to also grant executive pardon to former Governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame, who is serving a prison term.

They said their appeal was because of the health condition of the former governor, and also on compassionate ground.

They disclosed this before the kick-off of the finals of the First Ever Plateau North Peace, Unity and Reconciliation Football Tournament, organised by Sen. Gyang, held at the Rwang Township Stadium, in Jos the State Capital.

Senator Gyang said, “We in Plateau North under the able leadership of our father, Sen. Jonah Jang, we are making an appeal to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, that there is a leader of Plateau State, a former Governor of the state, that is still incarceration, as he is still undergoing a prison term, in the person of His Excellency, Sen. Joshua Chibi Dariye.

“We from Plateau North are appealing to the president that in view of the recent judgment by the Supreme Court that has absorbed Sen. Dariye of criminal misappropriation, and that on health grounds, he has been battling with his health.

“And therefore, we are appealing to the President, that on compassionate grounds, Sen. Dariye should be granted executive pardon”, he appealed.

Gyang, who is the Deputy, Chairman Senate Committee on Defence, further appealed to President Buhari, to include the Akwanga-Jos, Saminaka-Jos and Jos-Bauchi roads in the 2022 budgets, saying the roads have become “death traps”, especially the Akwanga- Jos road.

“That’s our appeal to the representative of the President of the Senate, that you deliver our message”, he stressed.

Also speaking, former governor of the state and an elder statesman, Sen. Jang, said, “We have consulted and I believe it’s time we speak with one voice from Plateau.

“And I’m speaking as a leader from Plateau and as an elder statesman in this country, that it is time we plead with Mr. President that he should grant our son, Chief Joshua Dariye pardon.

“I also want to take this opportunity to ask the representative of the Senate President, Senator Gabriel Suswam, to carry this message

“As you know, Benue and Plateau are neighbours to Taraba; and we want to ask that while we plead for Dariye, we are also pleading for the former Governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame, that he too be granted executive pardon”, he appealed.

Speaking on the football tournament, the immediate past Governor of the state, challenged other lawmakers to replicate what Sen. Gyang is doing in their respective constituencies.

Responding, Sen. Suswam assured that their appeal will be delivered to the Senate President.

He commended Senator Gyang for organising the tournament and urged his constituents to continue to support him.

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