(Photo) Married policeman breaks woman’s jaw for withholding girlfriend’s whereabouts

A 30-year-old woman, Oluchukwu Ezemaduka, is currently battling with a damaged jaw at a private hospital, West Care Specialist Hospital in Akowonjo, Lagos, after she was allegedly battered by a riot policeman, Idiahgbe Iyobosa.

Iyobosa, who is attached to a bank in the FESTAC Town, was said to have repeatedly hit the woman in the jaw with his service boots until blood gushed out.


Oluchukwu is the friend and roommate of Iyobosa’s girlfriend, Maryjane Anyagwa. The friends live on Awoyemi Street, off Coker Road, Ejigbo.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Iyobosa had visited his girlfriend in Ejigbo on Saturday, January 21, at about 9pm, with a view to passing the night at her place, but met only Oluchukwu at home.

He was said to have got enraged and resorted to the assault as the victim told him that she didn’t know Anyagwa’s whereabouts.

Oluchukwu, who managed to speak to our correspondent from  her sick bed, said the policeman ransacked the apartment, looking for his girlfriend.

“I was not in the room when he came. As I was about to enter the room, I felt that somebody was there; I got a torch from a neighbour and shone it in the room. That was when I knew it was him. He had scattered everywhere.
“He asked me where his girlfriend was, I didn’t answer him. He asked me the second time and I told him that I didn’t know her whereabouts. He kicked me several times with his boots, breaking my jaw. He brought out a dagger and chased me outside. It was people, who saved me.The pain is too much for me. The doctor said I would undergo surgeries this week.”

Her friend, Anyagwa, stated that her relationship with Iyobosa was marred with threats and harassment, saying she was no longer interested in the relationship.

She said,

“I was not around that day. When I came back the next morning, my neighbours told me that my boyfriend came to beat up my friend because he was looking for me. He thought she deliberately refused to disclose where I was.
“He usually assault me too. Most times, he would not notify me that he would pass the night in my place. He would threaten to deal with me if I report him to the authorities or quit the relationship. I was afraid.
“We started dating each other about a year ago. I later knew that he is married with two kids. The wife had warned me to stay away from her husband.”

An eyewitness and neighbour, Henry Okafor, said Iyobosa also attacked him that day when he cautioned him.

“He just came from nowhere and started beating the lady. He also attacked me. I didn’t fight him because he was in uniform,” he added.

Oluchukwu’s father, Mike Ezemaduka, who is based in Abuja, said he was shocked on seeing the condition of his daughter at the hospital

He said, “It was a serious injury and she will undergo two surgeries, according to her doctor. The doctor said she needed to recuperate a little bit before he could carry out the surgeries. The lower jaw was broken. We were told that she would no longer be able to chew if she didn’t undergo the surgeries, which will cost about N700,000. The policeman’s relatives have promised to pay the bill.
“My daughter is not his girlfriend; she has nothing to do with him at all. Why should he beat someone, whose room he barged into?”

It was gathered that the case was reported at the Ejigbo Police Station and Iyobosa was arrested.

The acting Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, Olarinde Famous-Cole, in a text message, said, “The incident was reported at the division for discreet investigation.”

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"Yes you saw pictures but pictures can be deceptive, pictures will not give you the exact impression, it doesn't communicate the exact thing that happened. I was at that wedding. I was the master of ceremony at the wedding launch. Despite the fact that it was the president's daughter's wedding, I will say it was modest""If you know our President, you will know that there is no ostentatious bone in his body. That wedding luncheon was modest for a sitting president. I don't like to compare but we were here when President Jonathan's daughter got married. You know the number of cars that she got, 80

Ministry workers flee as lepers protest in Delta

Workers in Delta State Ministry of Women Affairs and Community Development took to their heels yesterday, when lepers marked this year’s World Leprosy Day by staging protest, demanding increase in their monthly stipends, feeding and payment of arrears.

 They barricaded the new Anwai Road, where the ministry is located, and vowed to remain there until their demands are met as officials of the ministry took to their heels for fear of being brutalised.
The lepers, on the platform of Persons Affected with Leprosy, PALs, who came from their settlement at Eku in Ethiope East local Government Area of the state, accused the ministry officials of tampering with their allowances. Some of the placards carried by the protesters read:

“We are dying of hunger, our children are starving,” “In 2017 you must pay us N15,000 or we return to the road,” “Is there any market for the poor among others?” 

A leper Chairman of the Eku settlement, Mr. Lucky Egbo, and Secretary, Paul Oke, in a letter of reminder to the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Community Development, Mrs. Omatsola Williams, insisted that the six months arrears owed them should be paid. While also demanding increase in their monthly allowance from N3,500 to N15,000, they said they should be fed twice a day instead of once.

Contacted, the commissioner, Mrs Williams, said the lepers’ demands are being looked into, adding that they were not abandoned by the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration. She, however, said what was being owed the lepers under the present administration was this January stipend, saying that the five months being owed by the past administration was being looked into.

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According to reliable police source, the suspects also confessed to the December 2016 killing of Aisha Ali-Balogun, a presenter of a popular comedy show, Stand Up Nigeria.
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 When Vanguard interviewed the suspects, they confessed, saying they collected N2 million each from the ransom paid for the release of the victims. Super, also explained how his gang killed Alli-Balogun in 2016. Confessions of Super to Vanguard The 21-year-old Super told Vanguard that:

 “I am a native of Arogbo Town in Ondo State but I came to Lagos and joined the kidnapping gang in 2016. One of my friends, Austin, invited me to the gang and we worked with Stone, who is a commander of the camp who worked under Ossy, our overall boss. ‘’We also had 38 rifles in our  Ajegunle area of Ikorodu den, but our first operation was on the Ajegunle- Majidun Road and we were seven who carried out the operation. “We grouped ourselves in three, some were in front, others were in the middle, while the rest were behind. Although, we all shot indiscriminately but the people at the front were the ones that killed people. “My gang leader, American was the one who killed Alli-Balogun. 

He told us after the operation that when he stopped the woman’s car she was accompanied by  a man and two children, but when he stopped them the man ran out of the car with the children while the woman sped off with the car and that he shot her because she almost killed him with the car. That it was after killing the woman that he abducted her daughter.” “He explained that the woman almost killed him before he shot her. 

Stone, who was the leader of camp was not happy with the killing but he said he had no option. We kidnapped six persons, including the woman’s two year-old daughter and a ransom of N2million was paid before their release. Someone who claimed to be the woman’s husband paid us N500,000, before we released the two–year-old girl.” ‘

’The relations of the other victims paid us N1.5million and I got N45,000 as my share. That was because the people in the camp were many. ‘’

Three weeks ago, one of the leaders in our camp, Julius, brought the job of the kidnapping of the Turkish school girls and staff and when we kidnapped the girls, we didn’t maltreat them while we negotiated with their relations  because one of the students and the white woman among them assured us that the money we demanded will be paid by the  parents and the school authorities. ‘’We used to beat our victims and make them cry on the phones while talking to their relatives but we didn’t beat the Turkish students. ‘’I got N2million from the job and I was also monitoring the news, but I didn’t know that my colleagues had been arrested until I was nabbed.

 Ayeomi too confessed The other suspect, Ayeomi, told Vanguard that he was the house keeper in the camp. He said;

“ I am a  logger and I was invited to join this camp by my friends. They told me that they were expecting big money and my job was to cook for the kidnappers and their victims and also wash their cloths. When the money was paid I got N2million.’’