| − | <br>Nigerian Army personnel attached to Exercise Crocodile Smile II allegedly killed one Sadiq Ismaila, 20, and fled with his body to cover up the crime.<br><br><br>Four others including Paul Abudu and Bridget Afolabi were injured in the incident which occurred The incident occurred around 1:30pm, at Oniru Block Village, Lekki on Tuesday.<br><br><br>It was gathered that the soldiers, who came in a convoy comprising three armoured tanks and eight Hilux vans, had on Sunday stormed the neighbourhood and arrested 76 persons.<br><br><br>According to The Nation, the soldiers shot sporadically, sending residents and workers scampering to safety. Ismaila, who was packing blocks in the village, abandoned them on hearing the gunshots.<br><br><br>About 65 of those [http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/nigeria arrested] were handed over to the Maroko Police Division, which transferred them to the Lagos State Taskforce on Environment. Others were released at the army barrack where they were [http://www.Unhcr.org/en-us/nigeria.html allegedly] subjected to hard labour and made to sleep in the open field.<br><br><br>According to a food vendor, Rosaline Adedipe, the soldiers shoot Ismaila, because he refused to stop when the soldiers ordered him to do so .<br><br><br>"They shot him on the head. He was packing blocks when the army men started coming to his direction. People were running and Sadiq ran too. They told him to stop but he refused. He ran towards the fence and it was while he was standing by the fence that one of them told the other one: "Wait! I will kill him".<br><br><br>"Then, that one fired a shot on his head and Sadiq died on the spot.[https://Www.Forbes.com/places/nigeria/ forbes.com][http://www.yohaig.ng/recommends/sports-betting/nairabet/ yohaig.ng]</a> By that time, they had arrested four other [http://www.yohaig.ng/category/tv-stations/channels-tv/ persons].[https://Www.Gov.uk/government/world/nigeria gov.uk][http://www.yohaig.ng/recommends/sports-betting/nairabet/ yohaig.ng]</a> They now told the four men to carry his body into their Hilux van and they fled the area. This is the spot where it happened. See his blood still showing on the ground, despite that sand was used to cover it up.<br><br><br>"What the army people did was very wrong. Sadiq neither drank nor smoked. He was just doing his legitimate job and they killed him like that. Those behind it should be arrested. Let justice be done for Sadiq."<br><br><br>[http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/nigeria.htm Narrating] his ordeal, Abudu told The Nation that he was running like others when they saw the soldiers but suddenly fell.<br><br><br>"One of the army men followed me. When I fell, he jumped on my arm with his boot. I cried and he left me there. That was how I broke my arm. I am not a criminal. I do not smoke marijuana . I ran because they were just arresting people anyhow."<br>Afolabi, who sustained leg injury, said she fell while running to avoid being victim of indiscriminate arrest.<br><br>He, however admitted that there were some people who indulged in illegal drug abuse.<br><br>Reacting to the incident, The [http://Topics.Bloomberg.com/nigeria/ Block Village] Chairman, Bola Ekundayo, urged President Buhari and Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to probe Ismaila’s death.<br><br><br>"I know Sadiq very well. He’s a young man from Oyo State. He just recently finished learning tailoring. He was packing blocks at the village to save money," he said.<br><br><br>"He neither drank alcohol nor smoked. He was very gentle and respectful. Most of us here are block makers. This place used to be a ghetto where they smoked marijuana but the police have flushed most of them out. So, we renamed it Block Village because we are into block business. Why did they carry his body away after killing him? Is it not because they wanted to cover up their crime? When I heard of the incident, I called the Divisional Police Officer (DCO), Maroko, on phone and told him but he did not come. We are poor people here. Everyone here is afraid because no one knows when the army will come again to cause another trouble."<br><br><br>Condemning the incident, a lawyer and President, [http://www.Unhcr.org/en-us/nigeria.html Yoruba Council] of Youths, Aremo Hassan vowed to get justice for Ismaila, adding that he was already compiling evidence to formerly report the incident.<br><br><br>"I am at the scene. I have spoken to some of the eyewitnesses and I have also seen the spot where they shot Sadiq. I have seen his blood-stained clothe. This atrocity must not go unpunished." he had said. In a broadcast message, Hassan wrote:<br><br><br>"Please I just got a distress call that men of the Nigerian Army code named ‘Crocodile Smile 2’ attached to the Epe Army Barracks, without any provocation have killed one innocent man, Mr. Sodiq Ismail, 20, from Ona Ara Local Government Area in Ibadan, Oyo State.<br><br><br>"The soldiers left with the deceased body in their armoured vehicles to cover up their atrocities.[http://Www.Economist.com/topics/nigeria economist.com][http://www.yohaig.ng/recommends/sports-betting/nairabet/ yohaig.ng]</a> The incident occurred during their rampaging show of strength.<br><br><br>Here is my homepage: [http://www.yohaig.ng/category/tv-stations/channels-tv/ Yohaig]
| + | On Tuesday the Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of PDP, Ahmed Makarfi, paid former president Olusegun Obasanjo, a visit in Abeokuta, Ogun state. After the visit, Obasanjo was asked by journalists if the meeting was centered on him returning to the party whose membership card he tore in February 2015. Replying the journalists, Obasanjo said he will never return to PDP as a dog doesn't go back to it's vomit.<br><br><br>"I have told the chairman that I was in the PDP before but not now. God forbid, see when dog vomits, it will go back to eat its vomit, no. I have said no partisan politics for me again, but Nigeria is my passion until death do us apart. And anything that concerns Nigeria, the good of Nigeria, you’ll see my involvement. So, the chairman has come to greet me and I greet am, and now that we have greeted ourselves, the chairman will be going, you gentlemen and ladies of the press, you can now go, leave the chairman alone." he said<br><br><br>PDP members have now replied him saying the former president who was one-time the chairman of the party's board of trustees, can do as he pleases as they would not die without him. The party spoke through its National spokesperson, Prince Dayo Adeyeye<br><br><br>"He has said it before. We are not going to force him. No individual is bigger than the party. Obasanjo has the right to hold his opinion. But the PDP will not die, either he joins us or not. We respect his opinion. There’s nothing to say more than that. |
