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Human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, has decried the poor salaries and the N1.5 million gratuity being given to police officers and retired police personnel respectively by the Nigerian government.

 

Sowore, the former candidate the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections, said it is disheartening that men and officers of the Nigeria Police Force put their lives on the line for 35 years only to get N1.5 million (about $1,000) while corrupt average senators take home at least N15 million monthly. 

 

Sowore said this while reacting to a video in which the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, announced that there would be an award night for some officers of the Nigeria Police.

 

According to Egbetokun, despite the sacrifices made by the police personnel, they are hardly rewarded.

 

Egbetokun said the Nigeria Police Awards and Commendations Ceremony would come up on April 15, 2024, at the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.

 

However, Sowore said that this “explains the wrong priorities that have bedeviled ‘leadership’ in Nigeria.”

 

He wrote on his X handle on Sunday, “Recently, it came to light that an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) cadre of the Nigeria Police Force takes home a retirement gratuity of less than or about $1000 after serving their nation for 35 years rather than looking at how to fix the remuneration of the rank and file of the Nigeria Police the IG of Police is planning an “award night” at Transcorp Hilton in Abuja to reward some of their loyal boys and/or girls.

 

“This is going to be another time-wasting, money-gobbling jamboree in Abuja that the police don’t need.”

“All policemen and by extension civil servants need a living wage, adequate housing, dedicated and professional transportation, life insurance, proper training and retraining, hazard allowances, and a decent environment of work that humanizes them and most importantly a leadership that understands police work, not an “award night” for loyal police bootlickers!” he added in the post.

 

Also, in a March interview Arise News’ ‘The Morning Show, Sowore who said he didn’t like the police because of their human rights violations and assaults, even against him, noted that despite his ugly experiences with the police, he thought it was unconscionable for retired police personnel to be getting N1.5 million as gratuity.

 

He said a police officer who stopped him in Lagos and disclosed the amount retired personnel received as gratuities to him.

 

He said, “I thought he wanted to shake me down, and when I lowered my glass, he said Mr Sowore, I have something to tell you. Do you know that we are being paid N1.5 million gratuity and I said that must be some very gratuitous insult of a gratuity.

 

“That was my reply and I started tweeting right from there. It is very interesting that most people didn’t know this. It is also interesting that the police in this country will protect with their lives the people who are underpaying them.

 

“As I mentioned an average senator is taking home N15 million a month, he will take a police officer, do you know how many gratuities of police officers is the one-month salary of a senator? “You then go back to governors who served for four years and they have all the allowances and gratuities that you can’t even finish counting them.

 

“The one in Lagos, Tinubu, who started it, had to build a house in Lagos and Abuja. In fact, the house in Lagos is so luxurious that he was staying there before he moved to Aso Rock.

 

“He is entitled to change of cars every two years, he is entitled to police, DSS, he is entitled to N100 million if he goes for medicals in Nigeria and if he goes abroad, the state will be responsible for that.”

 

He lamented that such states have to spend billions of naira for former governors “who probably also stole more than enough while in office”.

 

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Reality TV stars, Kim and her sister Khloé Kardashian showed up to their family vacation over the weekend in Turks and Caicos wearing matching outfits .
 

Kim went makeup-free as she accessorized with a double cross necklace while later putting on a black cowboy hat as she lounged on the white sand.

 

Kim also took to Instagram to post a close-up of her snakeskin two-piece, writing, “This ain’t Texas…it’s Turks,” referencing Beyonce’s new hit “Texas Hold ‘Em.”

 

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The Imo State Police Command has arrested the 38-year-old owner of a guest house for the alleged murder of a youth.

The guest house owner identified as Ibe Obasi and two others at large were accused of torturing and locking Ebuka Udemba in a generator room where he died.

A statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Henry Okoye, on Sunday, disclosed that Obasi had been arrested for his role in the tragic incident that occurred on Saturday.

Okoye said, “Operatives of Obowo Divisional Headquarters have arrested the owner of ‘Our Guest House’, Umulogho, Obowo, Ibe Obasi, 38yrs, who was allegedly involved in the murder of a 25-year-old Ebuka Udemba, ‘m’, an indigene of Umuokpa in Obowo LGA of Imo State.

“Preliminary investigations revealed that the victim was tortured and locked up inside the generator room of the said guest house by the suspect and two others at large, where he suffocated to death, on the accusation of stealing a customer’s handset.

“Accordingly, the suspect has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Owerri, for consolidation of the ongoing investigation. He has provided useful information that will assist the determined operatives in arresting all the suspects in connection to the case.

“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma, has tasked the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of SCID to carry out a comprehensive investigation to ascertain the remote circumstances surrounding the death of the victim and ensure that all the suspects involved are arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law.

“While commiserating with the families, friends, and relatives of the victim, the Commissioner of Police strongly condemns the cruel act and calls on the people of Obowo LGA, particularly residents of Umulogho to refrain from taking laws into their own hands as the command is on top of the situation and has commenced a thorough investigation to apprehend the suspects linked to the case of murder and bring them to book.”

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) had lamented the alleged ongoing indiscriminate mass arrests, harassment and brutalisation of people and residents of Umulogho Obowo community in Imo State.

It noted that this was on account of a protest by youths of the community over the alleged murder of a youth of the community by a military officer in collusion with the management of a hotel where the victim was said to have been an auxiliary staff member until he was murdered.

Okechukwu Nwanguma, the Executive Director of the organisation in a statement on Sunday said the information at its disposal is that the youth was accused of stealing a cell phone belonging to a military officer who lodged at a hotel known as ‘Our Guesthouse’ located at Umulogho Obowo, Imo State where he was working until he was murdered.

RULAAC said, “That upon being summoned and confronted with the allegation of stealing the phone, the man denied knowing anything about the missing phone.

“That the owner of the hotel simply identified as Ibeh claimed he went to a native doctor with the man and the native doctor confirmed that Chukwuebuka stole the phone.

“That Chukwuebuka continued to deny the allegation of stealing the phone and he was consequently beaten and tortured in a bid to force him to confess, and was finally locked up in a small room where the hotel’s diesel generator is housed with heavy fumes emanating from the diesel engine.

“That the following day, the hotel management opened the generator room and found the man dead, apparently from a combination of the torture inflicted on him and suffocation.

“That Ibeh, the owner of the guest house contacted the military officer who arrived at the Guest house later and they took the deceased boy’s corpse and dumped it in a cassava farm near the guest house.”

Mabel Makun, wife of comedian, AY Makun, has dropped an interesting quote minutes after her husband shared a post on Instagram confirming rumours of crisis in their marriage.

 

AY  had in his post this evening, said his marriage of 20 years is slipping off his hand. 

 

 Minutes later, Mabel responded with a post that read;

‘’Distance is my new response to disrespect. I don’t react. I don’t argue. I don’t dive into the drama. I simply remove myself”