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A group, Behind Bars Human Rights Foundation, has alleged that officers of the Intelligence Response Team in Owerri, Imo State, arrested a young lady and turned her into a maid in their custody. 

The group stated that the 21-year-old lady, Glory Okolie, sat for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam on June 17, and was picked up on the same day.

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This was contained in a statement by the Director-General of the group, Harrison Gwamnishu.

According to him, Okolie's family members had searched for her in hospitals and mortuaries but the search yielded no positive result. 

However, a young man who was released from IRT custody informed them he saw the lady at the office washing and cooking for the officers after which the family sought to bail her.

Gwamnishu stated that the efforts of the family members to secure the bail of their daughter proved abortive.

He said the group's investigation, however, revealed that she had been taken to Abuja as a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra/ Eastern Security Network.

The group urged the IGP Complaint Response Unit Abuja and the new IRT head, DCP Tunji Disu, to launch an investigation into the issue and rescue the young lady.

The statement read, “21-year-old Miss Glory Okolie who enrolled for 2021 UTME has been in police detention since 17th June 2021 till date.

“She left the house and never returned. Since 17th June, her family had searched for her in hospitals and mortuaries but couldn't find her.

“Towards the end of June 2021, a young man who was freed from the IRT office Tiger Base Owerri told the Okolie family that he saw Glory in the custody of IRT officers cooking and washing clothes for them. 

”The family immediately went to IRT office and requested to see Glory and bail her out and till date, it’s been one story or the other.

“The IRT officers allegedly continued to extort the family and denied them access to see Glory. Our team launched an investigation and discovered Glory has been transferred to Abuja and tagged IPOB/ESN member. 

“Behind Bars Human Rights Foundation wishes to draw the attention of IGP Complaint Response Unit Abuja and the new IRT head DCP Tunji Disu to rescue Glory who has now become a maid in Nigeria police custody.

”Attached are evidence of all the money extorted and paid into an account provided by the IRT officers by the family of Glory.”

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A group, Behind Bars Human Rights Foundation, has alleged that officers of the Intelligence Response Team in Owerri, Imo State, arrested a young lady and turned her into a maid in their custody. 

The group stated that the 21-year-old lady, Glory Okolie, sat for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam on June 17, and was picked up on the same day.

File photo used to illustrate story.

This was contained in a statement by the Director-General of the group, Harrison Gwamnishu.

According to him, Okolie's family members had searched for her in hospitals and mortuaries but the search yielded no positive result. 

However, a young man who was released from IRT custody informed them he saw the lady at the office washing and cooking for the officers after which the family sought to bail her.

Gwamnishu stated that the efforts of the family members to secure the bail of their daughter proved abortive.

He said the group's investigation, however, revealed that she had been taken to Abuja as a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra/ Eastern Security Network.

The group urged the IGP Complaint Response Unit Abuja and the new IRT head, DCP Tunji Disu, to launch an investigation into the issue and rescue the young lady.

The statement read, “21-year-old Miss Glory Okolie who enrolled for 2021 UTME has been in police detention since 17th June 2021 till date.

“She left the house and never returned. Since 17th June, her family had searched for her in hospitals and mortuaries but couldn't find her.

“Towards the end of June 2021, a young man who was freed from the IRT office Tiger Base Owerri told the Okolie family that he saw Glory in the custody of IRT officers cooking and washing clothes for them. 

”The family immediately went to IRT office and requested to see Glory and bail her out and till date, it’s been one story or the other.

“The IRT officers allegedly continued to extort the family and denied them access to see Glory. Our team launched an investigation and discovered Glory has been transferred to Abuja and tagged IPOB/ESN member. 

“Behind Bars Human Rights Foundation wishes to draw the attention of IGP Complaint Response Unit Abuja and the new IRT head DCP Tunji Disu to rescue Glory who has now become a maid in Nigeria police custody.

”Attached are evidence of all the money extorted and paid into an account provided by the IRT officers by the family of Glory.”

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Residents of Jos North, Plateau State, on Wednesday defied the curfew placed on the local government area by Governor Simon Lalong and trooped out en masse to search for food. 

Governor Lalong had on August 15 declared a 24-hour curfew in the LGA following the massacre of about 22 travelers on Saturday by hoodlums.

The 24-hour curfew followed the earlier dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed on three local government areas in the state (Bassa, Jos South, and Jos North) due to security threats and tension witnessed by residents in some parts of the state.

SaharaReporters learnt that some residents thought the state government would relax the curfew after 24 hours in other to enable them to buy food items.

“Our hope was dashed as Governor Lalong and his security team refused to relax the curfew because of the fear of the unknown,” a resident said.

Sahara Reporters gathered that at the gate of University of Jos senior staff quarters, which is located at the Bauchi Ring Road, students were boarding vehicles to get out of the area.

At Maza Junction, villagers were in a rush to get food items like pepper, tomatoes, rice, beans, roasted corn.

 Security officials seemed helpless while trying to enforce the curfew.

Some students expressed displeasure with the situation and called on the Plateau State Government to provide a palliative for the people if it is not willing to relax the curfew.

Some villagers who came to sell perishable foods items at a popular market called Angwan Rukuba were very angry with the prolonged curfew period, describing the decision of the government as insensitive.

A source told SaharaReporters that some security operatives were collecting money from students to transport them out of the areas affected by the curfew

“Some of the students paid as much as N2,000 to the police and other security operatives, just to get out of Jos North, ” the source said.

 

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Residents of Jos North, Plateau State, on Wednesday defied the curfew placed on the local government area by Governor Simon Lalong and trooped out en masse to search for food. 

Governor Lalong had on August 15 declared a 24-hour curfew in the LGA following the massacre of about 22 travelers on Saturday by hoodlums.

The 24-hour curfew followed the earlier dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed on three local government areas in the state (Bassa, Jos South, and Jos North) due to security threats and tension witnessed by residents in some parts of the state.

SaharaReporters learnt that some residents thought the state government would relax the curfew after 24 hours in other to enable them to buy food items.

“Our hope was dashed as Governor Lalong and his security team refused to relax the curfew because of the fear of the unknown,” a resident said.

Sahara Reporters gathered that at the gate of University of Jos senior staff quarters, which is located at the Bauchi Ring Road, students were boarding vehicles to get out of the area.

At Maza Junction, villagers were in a rush to get food items like pepper, tomatoes, rice, beans, roasted corn.

 Security officials seemed helpless while trying to enforce the curfew.

Some students expressed displeasure with the situation and called on the Plateau State Government to provide a palliative for the people if it is not willing to relax the curfew.

Some villagers who came to sell perishable foods items at a popular market called Angwan Rukuba were very angry with the prolonged curfew period, describing the decision of the government as insensitive.

A source told SaharaReporters that some security operatives were collecting money from students to transport them out of the areas affected by the curfew

“Some of the students paid as much as N2,000 to the police and other security operatives, just to get out of Jos North, ” the source said.

 

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Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed 13 persons, including a mother and her baby in Randa, Dansadau district of Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

SaharaReporters gathered that the attack also left hundreds of others, including women and children, with various degrees of injury.

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It was learned that most of the victims were burnt to death in their houses while hiding from being abducted by the gunmen on Tuesday.

Also, several cows were said to have been rustled during the attack.

A source told SaharaReporters that over 40 men and women were also abducted by the gunmen.

“Yesterday, in Randa, over 13 persons, including a woman and her newborn baby, were killed. Over 40 men and women were also abducted,” he said.

The incident comes a few weeks after gunmen stormed the College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences in Bakura Local Government Area of the state, abducting 19 students and staff.

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Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed 13 persons, including a mother and her baby in Randa, Dansadau district of Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

SaharaReporters gathered that the attack also left hundreds of others, including women and children, with various degrees of injury.

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It was learned that most of the victims were burnt to death in their houses while hiding from being abducted by the gunmen on Tuesday.

Also, several cows were said to have been rustled during the attack.

A source told SaharaReporters that over 40 men and women were also abducted by the gunmen.

“Yesterday, in Randa, over 13 persons, including a woman and her newborn baby, were killed. Over 40 men and women were also abducted,” he said.

The incident comes a few weeks after gunmen stormed the College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences in Bakura Local Government Area of the state, abducting 19 students and staff.

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If you're dead you can't own land - so if someone obtains your death certificate you could lose everything.

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When Djamel Ben Ismail went to fight forest fires in Algeria, his life was cut short by a raging mob.

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The move follows the Taliban's takeover, and lack of global agreement over who now governs Afghanistan.

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A campaign gets underway to try to improve the lives of the world's 1.2bn disabled people.