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Speaker 1: Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City on Wednesday

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remanded two persons, a bus driver and one other person

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to prison for murder over the killing of a two

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years old baby at Ring Road popular area in Benin

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City when an official of the Edo State Public Safety

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Response Team ps RT allegedly dragged steering wheel with the

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bus driver, causing the moving vehicle to beer off the

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road to snatch and smash the baby girl on the

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pedestrian lane. This the investigative police officer IPO as Regina

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A bar One Are testified before the court that the

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murder was committed when the bus driver dragged the steering

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wheel with an official of the PSR, but the PSR

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official was apparently not arranged with the two other murder suspects,

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even when the police testimony indicated that the PSR official

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may be the principal suspect in the murder case, because

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there is seemly no justification for any law enforcement officer

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to hold or drag the steering wheel of a vehicle,

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even is if the driver of the vehicle is a

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high profile criminal suspect. According to state owned media in Nigeria,

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the News Agency of Nigeria NAN the Edo State High

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Court remanded the two persons Altuur and Kingsley Michael in

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a correctional center over alleged killing of a twenty one

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month old child. Itchua twenty five and Michael, thirty six,

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whose addresses were not given, are being charged with murder.

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The prosecutor, polycap Odion, said that the defendants committed the

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offense on March twelfth in Benin County Odeon said that

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Ittua and Michael unlawfully killed the child with a vehicle

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and attempted to kill two other persons. He said that

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the offenses contravened sections two hundred and thirty nine a B.

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Two hundred and forty three and two hundred and forty

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eight of the Criminal Law of Edo twenty twenty two.

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The prosecutor urged the court to remand the defendants in

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a correctional center pending the advice of the Director of

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Public Prosecution. Counsel to the defendant, mister Paul Baddockie prayed

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the court to grant his client’s bail, arguing that the

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case was purely an accident and not murder. Badochie further

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urged the court to listen to the report of the

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investigating Police Officer IPO to determine the true nature of

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the matter. In her report, the IPO asp Regina of

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Baiwana said that the defendant’s vehicle was coming from Agbor

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Park to Ring Road when a police Public’s Safety Response

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team intercepted them. She said that the defendants dragged the

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vehicle steering, with the police saying the vehicle veered off

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the road in the process and killed the little girl.

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The presiding Judge, Justice Williams A. Zigbevn directed the Defense

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council to tender a formal bail application before the court.

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He said that the facts in the bail application would

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enable the court to determine whether the case was purely

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an accident or murder. The judge remanded the defendants in

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Oco Correctional Center and adjourned the case until April first,

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twenty twenty five. We had reported that following widely media

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reported case of alleged abuse of the Naira, the Economic

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and Financial Crimes Commission e f c C has arrested

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and detained Kelliakumbo A Kabo Stone, the co ordinator of

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the Edo State Public Safety Response Team, the government agency

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that was suspended a few days ago by the state

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Governor Monday Ocpepolo over extortion, harassment and unruly behavior, days

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after a baby girl was killed when an official of

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the p s R allegedly dragged steering wheel with the

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bus driver of a moving vehicle. In other issue, we

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had reported that the co ordinator of the Edo State

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Public Safety Response Team p s R, Kelliakumbo A Kabo Stone,

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the p s R team that was suspended on Friday

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indefinitely by the state government, has debunked rumors and speculations

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that one of the officials that was lynched by mob

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over the death of a two year old baby girl

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in Benin City on Wednesday after the official allegedly dragged

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steering wheel with the bus driver of a moving vehicle

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is dead. Speaking with the PSR official at an undisclosed

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hospital in Benin City, Hemo Stone said he decided to

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do a video press release with the victim at the

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hospital bed to prove to those apparently happy over the

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unfortunate incident that the PSR official is not dead. We

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had reported that the Edo State Governor, Monday Okpepolo has

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indefinitely suspended the operational activities of the state Public Safety

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Response Team PSR, days after an official of the ps

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are allegedly dragged steering wheel with the driver of a

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moving bus, leading to an accident that killed a two

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year old baby in Benin City. This the state coordinator

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of the PSR, Kelliyakumbo Akabo Stone, reacted and said he

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supported the gover for the PSR suspension. Some residents who

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witnessed the cause of the accident on Wednesday said one

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of the PSR officials, simply identified as a barcher, was

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seen dragging the steering wheel of a moving vehicle with

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the bus driver and suddenly the vehicle veered off the

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road and snatched the two years old baby girl from

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her mother, who is a pos operator, and smashed the

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little girl on the road pavement. Edo State Government, in

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a statement signed and made available by the Secretary to

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the State Government, Umamusericula, stated that the decision was taken

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based on several complaints received by the state government on

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allegations of extortion, harassment and unruly behavior by members of

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the team. We have reported that the Edo State Command

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of the Nigeria Police Force has confirmed the killing of

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a two years old baby after a bus driver rammed

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the bus into a group of pedestrians while running away

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from the Edo State Public Safety Response Team PSA at

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the highly populated Ring Road in Benin City. This the

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state coordinator of the PSR, Kelliakumboa Akabo Stone, apologized to

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the bereaved family and promised to take action against the

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PSR official who allegedly gave the bus driver a chase.

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The police, in a statement on Thursday, said the PSR

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official was almost lynched to death by angry mob, but

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he was rescued due to the quick intervention of the

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men of the Asigi Police Division, adding that the tragic

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incident involves a white valid bus with registration number then

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four hundred and six yard ramming into some pedestrians, ostensibly

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to evade arrest by members of the Edo State Public

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Safety Response Quingi unimagica