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  • Vt. man arrested for allegedly shooting 3 Palestinian college students

    BURLINGTON, Vt. (TCD) — A man has pleaded not guilty to allegedly shooting three Palestinian college students who were in the area for Thanksgiving weekend.

     According to the probable cause affidavit, on Saturday, Nov. 25, at 6:26 p.m., Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Aliahmad, and Kinnan Abdalhamid were walking when a man approached them and opened fire in front of a building at 69 N. Prospect St. One victim sustained a gunshot wound where the bullet got lodged in his spine. Another victim was shot in the chest and the third was hit in his right glute. At the scene, investigators discovered four .380 cartridges and one bullet.

    All three victims are 20 years old and attended Ramallah Friends School in Palestine for high school, then came to the United State for college. Awartani goes to Brown University in Rhode Island, Abdalhamid attends Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and Aliahmad is studying at Trinity College in Connecticut.

    Investigators identified Jason Eaton as the suspect in the shootings. An ATF Special Agent went to his apartment at 69 N. Prospect St. Eaton opened the door and allegedly said, “I’ve been waiting for you.” He confirmed that he owned a Ruger .380 pistol, which he purchased in April.

    Burlington Police Department detectives obtained a search warrant for Eaton’s apartment and located the pistol in a dresser drawer. He was then arrested on three counts of attempted second-degree murder.

    Vermont Public Radio reports Eaton appeared in court Monday, Nov. 27, and pleaded not guilty to the charges. A judge ordered him to be held without bail.

    Burlington Police detectives spoke with the three victims, who said they were on a walk on North Prospect Street when the shooting occurred.

    According to the affidavit, the victims arrived in Burlington on Nov. 22 and were staying at Awartani’s grandmother’s house at 140 N. Prospect St. Awartani told the detective he and his friends spent most of their time watching television and going on walks together.

    On the night of the shooting, they were reportedly speaking a mix of Arabic and English, and he and Aliahmad were both wearing traditional Palestinian headscarves known as keffiyeh. Abdalhamid was not wearing one when he was shot, but he told police he was wearing one the day prior.

    Vermont Public Radio reports Awartani, Aliahmad, and Abdalhamid are in the intensive care unit.

    In a news conference Monday, Nov. 27, Burlington Police Chief John Murad called the shooting an “unprovoked and terrible crime and their lives have been changed forever.”

    Murad continued, “One in particular faces a tremendous struggle and recovery with injuries that may be lifelong.”

    Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George said, “Although we do not yet have evidence to support a hate crime enhancement, there is no question this was a hateful act.”

    The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont said in a statement, “The United States Attorney’s Office and the Civil Rights Division will assess the evidence generated to determine whether a federal crime may have been committed.”

    The Institute for the Middle East Understanding released a statement on behalf of the three families said the shooting was a “crime fueled by hate.”

    The statement said, “We believe a full investigation is likely to show our sons were targeted and violently attacked simply for being Palestinian. Full justice and accountability is important, and needed to ensure that this type of brutal and violent attack does not happen again. No one’s child should be attacked simply because of their identity. Our children, Palestinian children, like everyone else, deserve to feel safe.”

    The families wrote, “Our sons have been close friends since childhood, each of them uniquely brilliant, kind, and talented. We were so excited for them to attend prestigious universities in the United States, and believed that they would be safe here. Instead, they were viciously targeted in a brutal attack that plunged us as parents into our worst nightmares.”

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  • Florida man allegedly stuffed dismembered remains in trunk and shot himself

    CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. (TCD) — Deputies reportedly found a homicide suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Thanksgiving before finding a dismembered victim in the trunk of a car.

    On Thursday, Nov. 23, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home near Poe Street and Eden Drive to conduct a welfare check after receiving information regarding a possible killing. Deputies knocked on the door and announced their presence, but no one answered.

    The sheriff’s office secured the perimeter and walked into the backyard, where they found a large butcher knife on the ground. They also noticed blood and drag marks, corroborating their suspicions that a killing most likely occurred.

    According to the sheriff’s office, deputies continued attempts to contact the suspect in the home, but there was still no response. Officers made entry into the home and reportedly discovered 75-year-old Jonathan Dimick Sr. in the living room with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his abdomen. Dimick was unresponsive at the time but still alive.

    Citrus County Fire Rescue attempted lifesaving measures. Dimick was later transported to a hospital via helicopter, where he died from his injuries.

    According to the sheriff’s office, during the investigation, deputies found the dismembered body of 67-year-old James Banks in the trunk of his own car.

    Citrus County Sheriff Mike Prendergast called the scene “absolutely shocking.”

    Prendergast added, “It is rare that a case this horrific occurs in Citrus County, but this is what we prepare for.”

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  • DC Spends $270k To Repaint BLM Outside WH!

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    Judicial Watch: DC Government Spends $270,000 To Repaint “Black Lives Matter” on Street Near White House

    Judicial Watch announced recently it received 25 pages of records in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Washington, DC Department of Transportation which show the cost to taxpayers to repaint the Black Lives Matter slogan on a street in the nation’s capital was over $270,000. (The repainting seems to have taken place shortly before Black Lives Matter groups began defending Hamas terrorist murders of Jews in Israel.)

    U.S. Spends $30 Mil to Counter Corruption in Foreign Programs that Get Billions

    Fraud and waste are so rampant in foreign programs that receive enormous amounts of money from American taxpayers that the U.S. government is spending $30 million to counter corruption in the projects it already funds. The new anti-corruption initiative will operate within the scandal-plagued United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has a massive budget to provide humanitarian assistance worldwide and annually doles out billions to causes like reducing global poverty and under nutrition, providing bicycles for rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, racial equality, and a national condom strategy in Eswatini.

    Judicial Watch: FBI Records Show Top Officials Rushing to Craft a Response to Leaked Memo Revealing its Targeting of Catholics

    “The FBI launched a vicious spy effort against Catholics and sought to spy on parishioners as they sat in church pews,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These records show top FBI officials were panicked in response about their domestic spying abuse leaking out.”

    Cost of Illegal Immigration Greater Than Annual Gross Domestic Product of 15 States

    Mass illegal immigration resulting from the Biden administration’s open border policies is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars to provide an unprecedented number of migrants with medical treatment, housing, education, and other welfare services, not to mention law enforcement. A new congressional report that includes federal and state figures reveals the shocking price of supporting an estimated 16.8 to 29 million illegal aliens currently living in the United States.

     

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    In breakthrough, Congress obtains footage of undercover cops conducting surveillance on Jan. 6

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    Congressional investigators have obtained hours of video footage from undercover officers that appear to show plainclothes MPD officers exhorting rioters to climb scaffolding near the Capitol or talking about being undercover with liberal fascist protesters in a crowd.

     

    Judicial Watch: Secret Service Photos of Cocaine Found inside the White House – Documents Suggest the Cocaine Evidence Was Set for ‘Destruction’

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    “These photos and documents detail the disruption and expense of the Biden White House cocaine scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Few Americans buy that the Biden administration can’t figure out who brought this cocaine into the West Wing. Indeed, the lack of documentation about the ‘investigation’ of who was responsible is striking.”

    After-School Satan Club Targets Rural Connecticut School With Christian ‘Good News’ Club

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    Parents and faith leaders in Lebanon, Connecticut, are outraged that satanists are planning an after-school club for elementary school children in their town beginning December 1.

    A representative of The Satanic Temple’s (TST) After School Satan Club says Connecticut’s first such club was requested by a parent whose child attends Lebanon Elementary School as an alternative to the Bible-based Good News Club.

     

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  • Congress Inches Forward on Biden Corruption Inquiries

    Congress is fitfully inching forward with investigations that could result in the impeachment of President Joseph R. Biden.

    In the House impeachment inquiry, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has subpoenaed Hunter Biden, presidential brother James Biden, and key business associates. “The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes,” Comer said. “Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence.” The committee already has produced a remarkable array of witnesses, testimony, and documents showing that Biden family members raked in over $24 million from foreign nationals and hid the profits in shell companies.

    In the Senate, Charles Grassley’s interrogation of Justice Department conduct and the Bidens grinds on. In October, Grassley released a letter with the bombshell claim that the FBI “maintained over 40 confidential human sources” with “criminal information” on the Bidens. Grassley’s letter includes a sweeping request for Justice Department documents related to “Hunter Biden, James Biden, Joe Biden, and the Biden family,” as well as records of actions taken (and not taken) by Justice Department and FBI officials in matters related to the Bidens. He also indicates he plans to interview “25 DOJ and FBI personnel” involved in the Biden cases.

    Judicial Watch presses on with its own investigations. In June, we filed a Freedom of Information Act petition for FBI documents tied to a Biden Ukraine corruption probe. And this isn’t our first rodeo. From as far back as 2020, we’ve been uncovering details of Ukraine corruption tied to the Bidens. You can read more about JW’s investigations here.

    In his latest moves, Comer appears to be zeroing in on the flow of funds between James Biden and Joseph Biden, including a personal check from James Biden to his brother for $200,000. The White House has denied any impropriety involving the check, but it’s clear that James Biden is emerging as a major target of the House probe.

    The biggest paydays for James and Hunter Biden came from China—specifically from the energy conglomerate CEFC China. The total amount, flowing to Biden-connected entities, notes the Comer Committee, is “over $8 million.”

    In one gigantic payout, in August 2017, soon after Joe Biden left the vice presidency, CEFC wired $5 million to a new shell company formed by Hunter Biden. The new company would pursue energy and infrastructure deals. Hunter Biden would receive a $500,000 retainer and a $100,000 monthly payment. James Biden would be paid $65,000 per month. Hunter quickly got busy in Washington setting up a new office for himself and his CEFC partners. “Please have keys made available for new office mates,” he emailed building management. “Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Jim Biden, [and CEFC emissary] Gongwen Dong.”

    Was part of the plan also to pay Joe Biden? In an email sent to Hunter Biden and others about percentages of profit-sharing from the CEFC deal, a key Biden business associates asks, in what appears to be a reference to a ten percent share for Joe Biden: “10 held by H for the big guy?”

    An IRS agent who worked on the Hunter Biden case was pressed about that email in July testimony before Congress. He told the House Oversight Committee that “all I can do is speak to the evidence there” and “that email, ‘ten held by H for the big guy’ and from what I understand that to be is his dad, President Biden.”

    With Comer focusing on possible crimes, over in the Senate, Chuck Grassley is pursuing evidence of the cover-up. In his latest letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Grassley writes that “years of investigation…indicate there is—and has been—an effort among certain Justice Department and FBI officials to improperly delay and stop full and complete investigative activity into the Biden family.”

    Grassley added: “I’ve been made aware that at one point in time the FBI maintained over 40 Confidential Human Sources that provided criminal information related to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden. An essential question that must be answered is this: did the FBI investigate the information or shut it down?”

    One key figure on Grassley’s radar is Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, head of the controversial energy company, Burisma. Zlochevsky is also a focus of the House impeachment inquiry. But while Comer is following the money, Grassley wants to know what the FBI did about stunning allegations from the embattled oligarch.

    Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma in May 2014 at a salary of $1 million per year. By the end of the year, according to a detailed Comer Committee timeline, Zlochevsky was complaining about U.S. “government pressure” and urged Biden to contact his father, the vice president. According to an interview with a Biden business partner released by the committee, Hunter Biden did “call DC” after being pressured by Zlochevsky and his associates.

    Earlier this year, Grassley released a bombshell FBI informant report of a 2016 meeting with Zlochevsky. In the report, Zlochevsky claimed he had been coerced into paying a $10 million bribe to Hunter and Joe Biden. It “cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to another Biden,” the FBI informant reported Zlochevsky saying.

    Grassley now wants to know if the FBI buried that report and related documents. In his new letter, Grassley notes that in December 2019 the FBI’s Washington field office “closed” a case into “Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma, which was opened in January 2016 by a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act [FBI] squad.”

    How serious is the Grassley probe? “Based on the information provided to my office over a period of years by multiple credible whistleblowers,” the senator writes to Garland and Wray, “there appears to be an effort within the Justice Department and FBI to shut down investigative activity relating to the Biden family. Such decisions point to significant political bias infecting the decision-making of not only the Attorney General and FBI Director, but also line agents and prosecutors. Our Republic cannot survive such a political infection and you have an obligation to this country to clear the air.”

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  • Nigeria-qualified lawyer clinches SQE scholarship for his vision of the 21st century solicitor

    Noble Iheanacho secures a 50% discount on BARBRI’s SQE1 Prep course


    Noble Iheanacho, a Nigeria-qualified lawyer, has secured a part scholarship for BARBRI’s SQE1 Prep course for an essay on his vision of the 21st century solicitor.

    Having completed his schooling and LLB degree in Lagos, Nigeria, Iheanacho also acquired the Nigerian bar qualifying and practicing certificates, a diploma in management in law practice as well as a business analysis certification. This educational background allows him to bring “a holistic perspective that combines legal acumen with a keen understanding of management and business analysis,” he says.

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    In his 1,000-word essay, Iheanacho discussed his vision of the 21st century solicitor, where he sought to examine the evolution of legal practice over time, highlighting the changes in legal systems and methods vis-à-vis client needs.

    “As such, the solicitor of the future, like I concluded in my piece, must be multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional in approach, adopting and adapting to advanced strategies and techniques for better proficiency, expertise and significance.”

    For this and many more opportunities to help fund your SQE course, check out BARBRI’s funding options

    The scholarship will help further Iheanacho’s aspiration of being an international lawyer. With his experience of heading up the legal department of a multi-national management consultancy in Nigeria and setting up his own private practice, Iheanacho has been particularly attuned to the potential limitations of international transactions and their effect on cross-border business relationships.

    Speaking to Legal Cheek, Iheanacho said:

    “I am very excited to have won the BARBRI-Legal Cheek Scholarship Essay Competition. This is not only because of the scholarship award – which immensely assists with the achievement of my goal of dual-qualification, but also for the reason that it affords me with the necessary exposure and international visibility that I need to take my practice to the next level.”

    Iheanacho further explains that it is the increasing pace of globalisation and technological advance which have fuelled his desire for multi-jurisdictional qualification, with England and Wales’ common law emerging as the most relevant option — and the SQE being the easiest route to pursue this ambition.

    Speaking on Iheanacho’s win, Chris Howard, BARBRI’s University Partnership Director, commented:

    “It has been a pleasure for BARBRI to once again collaborate with Legal Cheek on our SQE1 scholarship prize. BARBRI’s goal is to be an enabler of our students’ career ambitions and this scholarship is one example of that mission in action. This year’s competition was of a typically high standard. In the end, Noble’s fascinating blend of professional historical context and a nuanced conclusion, recognising the multifaceted role of a 21st Century solicitor, just edged the other entries.”

    To find out more about how to prepare for qualifying via the SQE, check out BARBRI’s website.

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  • ‘My supervisor isn’t giving me work’

    Trainee needs help


    In the latest instalment in our Career Conundrums series, one fresh-faced trainee solicitor finds themselves with time of their hands.

    “Hello Legal Cheek. I’ve got a career conundrum as follows: my supervisor ins’t give me anything to do. For context, I am not long into my training contract with a medium sized national law firm and currently sit in the employment team. On occasions 2/3 days can pass without her even emailing! I’m trying to be pro-active and asking if I can help with anything, but she nearly always says no. What the hell can I do?!”

    If you have a career conundrum, email us at team@legalcheek.com.

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  • High Court judge to sample cider in Aldi-Thatchers ‘copycat’ row

    Nice work if you can get it


    A High Court judge is set to take the somewhat unusual step of sampling rival ciders as part of an ongoing trademark dispute between Thatchers and Aldi.

    In the High Court case, concerning Thatchers cloudy lemon cider and Aldi’s Taurus brand, the German retailer has been accused of “riding on the coat tails” of Thatcher’s success.

    In claiming that the Aldi product had damaged Thatchers’ trademark, Martin Howe KC, for Thatchers, asked Her Honour Judge Melissa Clarke to conduct a blind taste test of the two drinks, The Law Society Gazette reports.

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    Having conducted a similar experiment himself, along with his junior and a pupil, the KC argued that “[the products] do taste materially different, at least to a substantial number of people, and that will skew the public appreciation of the product and therefore damage the trademark.”

    Whilst agreeing to this request, HHJ Clarke declined to do so in court. “I have a no-alcohol while sitting rule” she went on. Howe’s suggestion that the cider was in fact not particularly strong, coming in at 4% alcohol, was met with a simple remark that that was “strong enough”.

    Instead, the ciders will be sent to Oxford for Clarke to try in private.

    Speaking elsewhere during the case, Howe claimed that Aldi has received an “unfair advantage” due to the similarity of the branding and packaging of the two drinks.

    “This has given Aldi an advantage”, he said. “They do not seem to have promoted this product but have achieved very large sales from a standing start and that was, in essence, their plan all along, which was to use the similarity between the appearance of the products.”

    Aldi denies any intention to deceive customers. The trial continues.

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  • Catholic Priest remanded for raping, impregnating teenage girl

    Catholic Priest remanded for raping, impregnating teenage girl

    By Ovat Abeng

    An Awka Chief Magistrates’ Court, otherwise known as the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court of Anambra State, has remanded a Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Nwaigwe Stephen in the Nigerian Correctional Center, for allegedly raping and impregnating a teenager.

    The priest was also accused of forcefully taking the pregnant minor to Benin City, Edo State, where she was delivered of her baby, but police investigation revealed that the whereabouts of the said baby is still unknown.

    The offence of sexual intercourse with a minor, is punishable under section 34(2) of the Child’s Rights Law of Anambra State, 2004.

    It could be recalled that Fr. Nwaigwe was among the priests expelled by a popular Catholic Faith-Based Religious Congregation in Orlu, Imo State, known as the Two Hearts of Love Congregation (Ugwu Nso) in 2018, for alleged misconducts inimical to the image of the order.

    Read Also: Group sensitises 200 women in Enugu community on gender-based violence

    It was learnt that the priest had met the teenager at the St. Albert The Great Catholic Church Parish, Obosi, Anambra State, where he was invited for a religious church programme.

    Meanwhile, according to the victim, while answering questions in court during remand proceedings on Monday November 20, 2023, the priest took her from her parents to live with him when she was 14 years old, promising to sponsor her education, while she equally served as the priest’s cook.

    She added that not long after she moved into the priest’s house, he started forcing himself sexually on her, saying that Rev. Fr. Nwaigwe continued doing it until she became pregnant at the age of 17.

    The minor further stated that when she informed the priest about her pregnancy, the priest took her from Ihiala Anambra State, where they lived, to somewhere in Benin City, Edo State to the house of a man and woman who the priest introduced to her as his brother and brother’s wife.

    “But when I gave birth to my baby at a native birth attendant’s house in Benin City, I was told that the baby died and when I made efforts for them to show me the dead baby, they said it has been buried”.

    When Court asked if she had been gang-raped before, the minor noted, “While on our way to Benin City, father told me to say that I was gang-raped. But I have never been raped before, except the ones he (father) did to me in his house”.

    Also, during remand proceedings, the Police prosecutor informed the court that there was a probable cause to order the remand of the priest; witnesses were bound over to appear before the High Court to give evidence, whenever the case would be mentioned.

    However, the defence counsel applied for bail of the defendant, urging the court to exercise its discretion of bail in favour of the defendant, while citing Sections 13(3), 71(3), 72 and 73 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) of Anambra State, 2022, as well as, Sections 35 and 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as Amended.

    He also prayed the court to grant bail to the priest in most liberal terms; assuring the court that Rev. Fr. Stephen Nwaigwe would never jump bail, if granted.

    But, in a vehement opposition to the bail application by the defence counsel, the police prosecutor prayed the court to refuse bail to the clergyman, stating that the case before the court was an offence against a minor who was supposedly under the spiritual guardianship of the defendant.

    The prosecuting police officer emphasized that the defendant had since been suspended by the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church, noting that the claim that the defendant had serious health challenge to warrant being granted bail, was never certified by a qualified medical personnel, as required by the ACJL, 2022.

    According to the police prosecutor, the defendant could jump bail and leave the country without standing his trial, if granted bail.

    Ruling on the bail application, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe, stated that the case before the court was an offence punishable with life imprisonment, regretting that the offence of rape against minors was becoming rampant in the society.

    She warned that the court would not fold its hands to watch the society decay, irrespective of whose ox is gored.

    The court gave numerous instances of similar offences which had appeared before it in the past, mentioning specifically, a case involving a 75-year-old man who also allegedly raped a minor and was accordingly remanded.

    In the light of the above stance and other submissions by the honourable court, on point-of-law, the defendant, Rev. Fr. Stephen Nwaigwe was accordingly remanded in the Correctional Center, even as the court urged him to seek his bail at the High Court.

    Meanwhile, the Presiding Chief Magistrate ordered the Prosecuting Police Officer to transmit the original case file to the office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Anambra State.

    She therefore adjourned the case to the 6th day of December, 2023, for report of compliance.

  • Enugu-Agidi Community Protests Alleged Assault On Police Operatives In Anambra

    Enugu-Agidi Community Protests Alleged Assault On Police Operatives In Anambra

    By Ovat Abeng

    Protesters from Enugu-Agidi Community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State mostly, elderly men and women has protested alleged assault on Police Operatives serving in the state.

    The protesters openly accused one Ozo Jeff Nweke, of using a security outfit known as Blue Shield to harass, intimidate and maim any police officer who cross his path.

    They also accused him of land grabbing and raping.

    It was gathered that the protest is coming barely two days after indigenes from Ezina-ano (4 quarters), Umuoukpu (1 quarter), Ezi-Awka (7 quarters), Amikwo (5 quarters) and Agulu-Awka (7 quarters) that constitute the state capital, staged a peaceful protest to demand the immediate removal of DC Akin Fakorode, in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department (State-CID) and Inspector Monday Umana, who is also working in the department.

    Read Also: Retired DIG sues Anambra CP over alleged link to criminal activities in Awka

    The people accused the two officers of aiding cultist killing and other crime related activities in Awka, the state capital and its environ.

    Reacting further, the spokesperson for Enugu-Agidi protesters, Chief Peter Omekunsi, who addressed Journalists shortly after the protest held at the State Police Command’s Headquarters Amawbia, on Friday, alleged that the Awka protest were sponsored by Ozo Nweke to distract the police to enable him continue with his evil activities via the Blue Shield Security outfit.

    He said that the women seen on that day protesting naked were Abakaliki prostitutes that based in Awka and not original Anambra women, specifically, from Awka extraction.

    “As I speak to you, Ozo Nweke, has forcefully collected so many people’s land across neighboring communities of Enugu-Agidi and Nibo respectively.

    “We are from Ifite, Achalla, Igbolo and Imoloieli villages all in Enugu-Agidi Community.

    “We want the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, the State Police Commissioner, CP Adeoye Aderemi to urgently intervene in the matter and get Ozo Nweke arrested for peace to reign in Anambra State.

    The protesters were seen carrying placards with various inscription such as; Ozo Jeff Nweke stop hooting police officers, Anambra police will not fear you and your criminal gangs, police is to protect citizens, Awka is peaceful stop creating insecurity, Anambra police will not aide crime, stop land grabbing, Ozo Jeff Nweke stop killing police officers over Enugu-Agidi land, Ozo Nweke go and answer your charges in Court, among others.

    AC Operation, Mr. Anietie Eyoh, who addressed the protesters on behalf of the Commissioner, CP Adeoye Aderemi, assure the people that the Command is instigating the allegation.

    He urged them to allow police to do their job on the matter and not to take law into their hands.

    When journalists reached Nweke on phone for reactions to the allegations against him, he pleaded to be given time to to call back.

    He said: “I’m away in Abuja, and right now I’m inside someone’s office, so it won’t be fair to be answering call here. Just give me time and I will call back.

    “When the reporters opted to call him back in an hour’s time he said: “Don’t bother yourself calling, I will call you once I’m out of here.”

    Over six hours letter, Nweke was yet to call back.

  • The most prolific art thief in modern history nabs masterpieces totaling an estimated $2 billion – TCDPOD

    This Week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: How one man stole art masterworks worth an estimated $2 billion. While a thief by trade, averaging a heist once every 12 days, the man’s motive was not monetary but instead was an obsession with the unobtainable works that he kept for himself in his mother’s attic.

    Michael Finkel joins host Ana Garcia.

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