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How I rejected N10million from fleeing ‘killer’ Enugu native doctor – immigration officer
Orji Ugochukwu, said to be an officer of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), who arrested Levi Obieze, the alleged killer native doctor in Enugu community has reportedly given details of how he accomplished the feat, stating that he actually rejected a bribe offer of N10million and expensive mobile phones in his determination to bring him to book.
Kemi Nandap, Controller General of the organisation, had confirmed on Thursday that operatives of the NIS native doctor, popularly known as E de play, e de show, who is also declared wanted by the Enugu State Police Command for alleged involvement in abduction, kidnapping, and ritual killings, while trying to cross the Nigerian borders.
Akinsola Akinlabi, spokesman of the agency in a statement of behalf of the DG: Nigeria Immigration Service confirms arrest of notorious crime suspect, Obi Levi Obieze, had attributed the arrest to credible intelligence of the officers, who were alerted of the possibility of the culprit heading their way.
The statement, read in part: “Through credible intelligence, Obi Levi Obieze was apprehended by vigilant men of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Lagos State Border Patrol Command, at Gbaji checkpoint along Badagry-Seme Road while attempting to flee the country on a motorcycle.”
But further information showed that the alleged ritualist, a resident of Umuojor village in Isiagu Community, of Ezeagu Local Government was already on his way to making good his escape through a well-laid camouflage, but for the eagle eye of Ugochukwu, who gave him a hot pursuit, before eventually arresting him.
The account which is going viral on social media including the offer of N10million to buy his freedom, said that Obieze, actually denied being the one in the picture on social media, but on insistence of the officer not to let him go, began to offer all sorts of inducements including money and expensive phones.
Ugochukwu’s alleged account, though unverified yet, said: “On Wednesday afternoon, while discharging my duty at my checkpoint in Gbaji along Seme road, I saw bike carrying a young man, who was wearing a face cap, his face flashed back in me, because I got an information about the man trying to escape plus his picture that has been going viral on social media.
“So, I tried to stop the bike carrying him but he refused to stop. So, I quickly jumped another bike and followed him immediately, and I caught him at the other immigration checkpoint in front. I ordered bike man carrying him to turn back, but this time I entered the bike together with him.
“On our way back to my checkpoint, he stopped the bike and started asking me what he did I brought out my phone and showed him his pictures and the crime he committed, he denied that the person in the picture was his brother and not him, that he was coming back from bank in Agbara and he is not a native doctor.
“After some time, he decided to offer me N10 million ( bIood money) to let him go. I refuse to collect his blood money. He said that he never committed those crime, that people set him up, because it was his turn to become the Igwe of their community.
“I refuse to let him go. He further added his iPhone 13 promax and Tecno camon 19. He said that his iPhone 13 promax is worth N1 million and that I should please let him know go, but I refuse his offer and force him back to my checkpoint at Gbaji Seme road.
“Then I snapped him those pictures going viral online and sent signal to my command which is Seme border patrol command. When I confirmed that he was truly the one I quickly handcuff him and moved him to our command head office immediately. Even my colleagues were doubting because nobody recognised him except me.”
Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Governor of Oyo State, on Thursday, finally threw his hats into the ring by declaring his intention to run for president in 2027, with a message – history beckons.
The governor, whose ambition has been a matter of speculations for months now and who had teamed up with forces angling to force President Bola Tinubu, out of power, told a teeming crowd in Ibadan on Thursday that time had come to reset Nigeria.
At a mega-rally to announce the alliance between the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and the Allied Peoples’ Movement, (APM), Makinde, expressed worry over the dwindling fortunes of Nigerians, vowing to engage Nigerians to end the drift.
Hear him: “Without a multi-party system, there is no democracy. Where is our multi-party? Where do we go from here? We have been pushed to the wall.
“They calculated and self-opposition cannot unite but I am here to say that the opposition is the everyday Nigerian. This is the time for all us to ensure Nigeria works for us. This is the time to confront it fears. It is time to engage as citizens and not spectators.
“For the opposition political parties, this is the time to unite and work in unity and give our nation the much reset it needs. The time to reset Nigeria is now. Ibadan is the city of warriors. The first grand alliance is formed. The PDP and APM is formed. This handshake will allow us to field candidates from presidency to state Assembly. And so, I declare my candidacy for office of the president of Nigeria.”
Eyo Ekpe, a professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), on Wednesday, gave a detailed account on how operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) manhandled him on Monday.
He told reporters that he was at sea on why he should fall victim to the assault against his person and eventually arrested given that was not right person directly involved in the information the agency sought.
Some operatives of the EFCC who invaded the hospital, had whisked Ekpe away after firing teargas to scare away the workers, patients and visitors to the hospital, following what appeared like a fracas the ensued over what it claimed was a routine duty in the facility.
Ekpe, Deputy Chairman of the hospital’s Medical Advisory Committee (MAC), described how an operative had first entered his office to make inquiries on why the hospital was yet to give a response to an EFCC inquiry over a medical report linked to a suspect facing trial.
He detailed how he briefed the operative that the said response was being prepared and even went ahead to show him the draft of a letter in that regard, which needed to go through the gamut of official endorsement before being released.
Hear him: “The head of that internal medicine department looked at the report and also discovered that the name of the doctor that signed the report is not a member of staff of that department.
“I had prepared prepared a response to the EFCC on Monday, May 11, 2026, based on the findings. When the EFCC operative visited my office the next morning to collect the document, I told him that the response was ready in draft. I even showed him the draft, but told him that the document still needed approval from the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital before it could be officially signed and released.
“He pretended to have accepted that. He left, but later later returned with another armed operative and informed me that I was under arrest. I asked him why. I was not the one that issued the medical report. My name is not on the medical report. The report was not issued from my unit.
“But he said I would get the answer when I get to their office. I then asked him to at least wait for my staff member who I sent on an errand before joining them. But they refused.
“They started pushing me. They dragged me out of the office. Then I began to cry while they were dragging me. They had warned me not to speak. They had taken my phone. My cry as they were dragging me, attracted the workers to the scene, who enquired what was going on, but because they ordered me not to speak, I couldn’t say anything. They had their guns.
The members of staff of the hospital initially blocked them from taking me away. They then made a call. After that I saw many masked and armed men came violently, broke the protector, threatening the people that were around and people ran away.
“They picked some staff that were still by me. they dragged me and other staff, five of us into their van downstairs. By that time they discovered that the gate of the hospital were locked. So, they drove towards the gate and packed and the commotion continued. We were inside the van.
“I was so emotionally and psychologically traumatised that I couldn’t even look out of the vehicle to see what was happening outside. But I know that teargas and live bullets were shot. That’s all I can say for now.”
Joyce Abdulmalik, of the Federal High Court, Abuja, heard on Wednesday, how Zenith Bank raised alarm over the huge transaction in one of its branches by Abubakar Malami, former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF-MoJ).
The bank said it immediately filed a Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) in respect to the transactions, during its appearance in the ongoing trial of Malami, his wife, and son over allegation of massive looting of funds belonging to the Federal Government during his tenure.
Mashelia Bata, a compliance officer with the bank, who appeared as witness in the case, where Malami, et al, are facing a 16-count charge bordering on alleged money laundering to the tune of N8.7 billion, to which they pleaded not guilty, gave the testimony while being questioned on the bank’s roles in the matter.
Details of the testimony conveyed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), stated how the compliance officer who was cross-examined by Adebayo Adedeji, lawyer to the defendants admitted that the deposits in the account statements complied with the guidelines of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Arguments had stretched when Adedeji, opposed Jibrin Okutepa (SAN), lawyer to the EFCC, who had asked the witness to explain the meaning of a suspicious transaction report, stressing that there was no ambiguity in the term.
However, Okutepa, in response, maintained that section 215(3) of the Evidence Act did not preclude him from re-examining the witness while urging the court to allow the question for proper explanation.
After Abdulmalik, agreed and overruled Adedeji, the witness told the court that banks were required to alert the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) about fund deposits coming in a repetitive pattern, adding: “Any deposition of funds seen in a pattern or repetitive, you must escalate it to the NFIU.”
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