Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command, have launched a manhunt for the daredevil gunmen, who set a whole luxurious bus ablaze after robbing the passengers and dispossessing them of their valuables.

The bus was said to have been waylaid at the wee hours of Saturday, with the hoodlums looting the belongings of the passengers, most of whom were travelling to the South East to celebrate Easter with their loved ones in the villages.

The incident, said to have occurred at Oke Ado Junction, in Ijebu Imushin, along the Ijebu-Ode-Benin Expressway, was confirmed by Omolola Odutola, spokesman of the command.

“It happened in Oke Ado junction at Ijebu Mushin. A luxury bus of Mercedes Benz was burnt down. The vehicle was coming from Maza Maza (in Lagos State) before it encountered the hoodlums,” said, adding that the police were already on the case to track down the gunmen.

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The incident, on the 59-seater bus said to be operated by Ifesinachi Transport Ltd, was captured in a video, making round in the social media, where some of the affected passengers, including women and children were seen completely stranded in the middle of the road.

A man, one of the victims, who was seen narrating the ordeal of the passengers, spoke of how the bus was waylaid by the criminals, saying: “Ifesinachi Motors, we were travelling in the night to come back to the East for Easter celebrations, and criminals attacked us in Ijebu Ode along the Ore-Benin Expressway.

“They robbed us of everything we had, they stripped some half-naked. They locked us inside the 59-seater luxury bus and set it ablaze. We thank God that we later escaped. Nobody died but everything we had was collected. We thank God that we didn’t lose anyone but we lost everything we were travelling with and some sustained injuries.”

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The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Enugu, has continued to detain the corpse of Janet Nwaosu one year after its doctors allegedly killed her, even as the hospital management has also denied family access to the corpse for the past one year.

Recall that the family of the late Romanus Nwaosu of Amaeta village in Mgbowo, Awgu Local Government of Area Enugu State had accused one Dr Chibuoke and a nurse of killing their mother, Mrs Janet, who was on admission at the UNTH on October 18, 2022.

The family claimed that the said doctor (Chibuoke) and the nurse injected their mother with a drug that killed her less than five minutes after the injection, without the consent to inject her the drug.

According to the family, the accused health practitioners were not the ones assigned to take care of the deceased at the hospital when they injected the drug that killed her.

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However, more than one year after the incident, the Chief Medical Director of the teaching hospital, Dr Obinna Onodugo, has refused to release the body of late Janet because, according to him, one of the children of the deceased, “had maliciously broken a glass window in the hospital” after the alleged killing of their mother.

Meanwhile, Punch gathered that despite paying all necessary charges, the CMD was said to have given an order that no member of the family should be allowed to see the corpse of their mother in the past one year.

The PUNCH, quotes Augustina Nwaosu, the deceased daughter, who said she had been taking care of her before her death as bemoaning on Wednesday that the hospital management had been dragging the family from one police formation to another.

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Operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command have launched an intensive manhunt for those who killed Grace Chalya Silas, a female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kaduna State, who was hacked to death by a gang said to specialise in phone snatching and other crimes.

Channels Television quoted a close friend of the deceased as saying that the female corps member, who was jogging along the road on Thursday, was accosted by the hoodlums in the Barnawa area of the Kaduna metropolis, and  stabbed in the chest and that her phone was also taken away.

Manir Hassan, spokesman of the command, who confirmed the incident, said operatives had already been deployed to fish out the killers, adding that the Commissioner of the police had ordered that no stone should be left unturned in getting at the root of the matter and punishing the offenders.

“The Commissioner of Police after an emergency meeting of the top hierarchy of the command, had ordered the Barnawa Divisional Police Officer and operatives to hunt for the killers of the Corps member. It’s a very tragic incident. She was performing her early morning jogging when some miscreants on motorcycles pounced on her.

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“The victim’s name is Grace Chalya Silas. She was a corps member serving in Kaduna South. When the case was reported to the police, operatives responded swiftly and moved to the scene of the crime where they saw the victim in the pool of her own blood. She was rushed to the clinic where she was later confirmed dead.

“Since the incident was reported to the police, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, held an emergency meeting with the top hierarchy of the Command over the matter. We are already in touch with NYSC in the state. The CP has directed the Barnawa DPO and Area Commander to immediately hunt for killers of the corps member and fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act.”