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Speaker 1: Missus Irene obum Lemme, a pregnant woman and the wife

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of Stephen obum Neme and Wosu, who was allegedly shot

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dead on Valentine Day around Amufi Junction along Benin Agbour

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Road in Benin City. The Edo State Capitol has cried

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out to well meaning individuals and civil society organizations to

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help her prevail on President Bola Ahmed Tenubu, the Chief

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of Defense Staff, General Olifemi Olide, and the four Brigade

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of the Nigerian Army to bring the suspected murderer of

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her husband to justice, stating that she has no knowledge

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if the soldier who allegedly committed the murder is actually

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being prosecuted, saying till date, the family has no information

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about the identity of the alleged killer or any legal

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action taken by the military authority to make the killer

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soldier face full wrath of the law, adding that the

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corpse of her husband has been in the mortuaries since

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the incident occurred on February fourteen, twenty two, twenty six,

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because the family believed if the husband is buried, they

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may never get justice and the case may be swept

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under the carpet. The bereaved pregnant woman made the appeal

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in a twenty one minutes video made available to US

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fortnight ago, after we had earlier reported that the family

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of Stephen obum Lemmee and Wosu has accused the Armed

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Forces of Nigeria AFN, led by General Olifemi Oliidae, the

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Nigeria Chief of Defense Staff, of attempted acts to cover

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up a soldier who allegedly murdered the young man Stephen

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obum Neme and Wosu on February fourteenth, twenty twenty six,

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Valentine’s Day along bene en Agbor Road around Amufi Junction

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in Edo State. This according to the family member, who

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pleaded for her names not to be mentioned in the press,

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said her brother was shot dead by the soldier after

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the deceased refused to hand over his car key to

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the soldier as demanded, saying her brother only went out

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with his friend she identified as Godwin Koke to get

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chicken feed when they encountered the soldier at the failed

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portion of the road that is currently under construction, saying

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the Nigerian Army has refused to disclose the names of

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the soldier who allegedly committed the act of murder or

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take appropriate lawful actions against the suspected murderer and in

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a swift reaction. When our reporter contacted the public relations

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Officer of four Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Captain Kennedy

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and Yan Muva a phone call on Thursday evening, the

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military authority said it is not true that the soldier

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in question has not been identified, saying the matter has

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been settled. And when our reporter demanded to know how

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the alleged murder case was settled with the family, the

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military authority refused to give details. Also, when our reporter

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contacted the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force

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public Relations Officer asd No Acodum, the police authority said

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the matter is under investigation and there is no ways

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such matter can be swept under the carpet. According to

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the bereaved pregnant woman, eyewitnesses said after her husband was

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shot and was in the pool of his blood, the

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killer soldier wanted to abandon him, but the people around

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prevailed on him and that was when the soldier decided

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to take the victim to the hospital and the bereaved

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family was later told by an officer that her husband

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was pronounced dead at the hospital, but she and the

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family believed the officer is lying because, according to her,

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when the bereaved family visited the hospital, the officer claimed

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their son was taken to the doctor at the hospital

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denied receiving such person as a patient. The woman noted

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that on Tuesday, February seventeenth, twenty twenty six officials from

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the four Brigade of the Nigerian Army, the Edo State

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Command of the Nigeria Police Force, and the construction company

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visited the bereaved family house. Unsympathized with the family and

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assured the family that due process would be followed to

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make sure the soldier who allegedly committed the crime is prosecuted.

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But ever since, the bereaved family had had several meetings

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with the Edo’s State Police Command and the military authorities,

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and yet no reasonable thing has been said to assure

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the family that the suspect is actually being prosecuted and

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the compensation they claim to pay is being processed. Continuing,

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the young widow said till date, she does not know

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the name of the soldier who killed her husband. Or

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the military command he worked with for her to always

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remember the man who killed her husband, begging the military

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authority to at least allow her access to such information.

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The young widows said she wrote through her lawyer to

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the edo’s State Commissioner of Police to take the matter

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to court, but ever since still the case has not

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been taken to court and she is no longer trusting

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the way and manner the police is handling the issue,

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hence her coming out publicly to beg and appeal for

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anyone to help her get justice. All I am seeking

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for is justice for my husband, the soldier identifi tried

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and prosecuted, so that it will be on record that

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my husband was murdered and when the children grow up,

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they will know that their father was not involved in

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any criminal activity. We have a two year old boy

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and the one we are expecting.

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Speaker 2: She said, Hi everyone, my name is missus Irene Abunami.

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Speaker 3: I’m the wife to.

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Speaker 2: The victim, mister Stephen Abunemen Wilson.

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Speaker 3: I’m here too plead.

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Speaker 2: Through any relevant agency that can help me to seek

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justice for the extra judicial killing of my husband on

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the fourteenth of February twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: My husband had left home at about.

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Speaker 2: Eight fifty am thereabouts to go get feed for his beds.

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Speaker 3: He runs a poetry.

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Speaker 2: And I could remember calling him at around ten forty

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eight and he told me vividly that he was ready

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on his way back home, that I would see him.

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So I would have for over an hour, and then

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I tried calling him back. It rang at the first

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doll and when I tried again, his boat lines were

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switched off. I thought maybe he was caught up in

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maybe something else or maybe traffic, and only for me

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to see his friend a few as. Some hours later,

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his friend came home and said I should come with him,

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that they had an altercation with a soldier and that

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he doesn’t know if the soldier took him to the

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bar or any of the police nearest police station. So

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I got dressed and followed him went to the nearest

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police station.

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Speaker 3: On getting there, after I had spence over an hour.

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Speaker 2: For any of the officers or somebody to talk to

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me or tell me something, because he had asked me

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to wait for the deep heal that he wasn’t on

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the seats, that when he comes still address the issue,

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only for the deep lay to command tell me that

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they are sorry that he.

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Speaker 3: Diseased, has been taken to the.

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Speaker 2: Mortuary, that he did not make it.

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Speaker 3: I got confused.

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Speaker 2: Because I don’t understand what could have transpired to the

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point of me getting such news. At that point, I

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was I was in shock. I was in disbelief. All

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I just won’t take I just thought, them, oky, just

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take me to him. I just want to see him.

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Just maybe let me see him and understand what you’re saying.

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Then they said we should come to the States CID.

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At the time, I was thinking, maybe he’s at the

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State’s s ID. I was just in total disbelief. I

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didn’t want to take. I didn’t take or buy what

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depo was saying that he did.

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Speaker 4: Not make it.

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Speaker 2: So when they said you should go to the State’s CID,

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I thought, Okay, probably that’s where he is. Only for

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us to get to the State’s CID. After many back

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and thoughts, go here do this? They brought out the

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soldier and said this is the soldier.

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Speaker 3: That shot to her husband. I was still confused.

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Speaker 2: Next thing they said, the Commissioner of police in a Dose,

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States invited us to his office. Got there, I saw

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the commissioner seated and the brigadeer commander seated to and

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all I could here was was so sorry, it is

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not in our ethics this and that the soldier would

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be the case of the investigated and the soldier will

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be prosecuted. They were saying so many things that wasn’t

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making sense. And I told him take me to where

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he is. That was just all, let me see him.

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Then they handed me over his phones and said they

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were going to take me to.

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Speaker 3: Where he is.

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Speaker 2: But then when we came down, while waiting for them

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to take me to the montored, they.

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Speaker 3: Said they’ve taken him to.

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Speaker 2: Next in the said was it was already late, that

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the IPO isn’t here, and the IPO was the one

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who took the body to the mortuary, and the APIO

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needs to give us a tag that would allow the

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mortuary attendance to allow us eight to see him. And

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the fact that I’m pregnant. I was already I think

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sis month’s gone at the time, and the fact that

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I’m pregnant, I can’t come into the mortuary. As they

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were saying, all of this time was already running past.

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I think it was already late. It was already past

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seven or to eight something like that eighth po. I

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was confused. Nobody was agreeing to take me there. I

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didn’t know my way to the place. I don’t even

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know where. I was just confused, and for the fact

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that I was in so much denial that there’s no

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way my husband would be dead. I came back home

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on that fourteenth, came back hoping and praying. I hoped

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so much. I prayed so much that it should just

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be a dream, a night’s name, or maybe even a prank,

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or it should just let it be a miracle.

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Speaker 3: I prayed.

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Speaker 2: I hoped for a miracle that by morning, which was

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on the fifteenth of February, that I would be told.

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He came back that I would be told. Probably they

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noticed life still in game, and then they rushed it

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to the hospital. I prayed, hopie and then on the fifteenth,

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that was on a Sunday, around ten a m. I

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went back to the police station. At the time, I

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had had informed my parents and some family members. So

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we went to the police station. Before the officers there

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said Aypeo went to church. We had to wait for

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the Apio to come back from church.

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Speaker 3: This and that.

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Speaker 2: While waiting, I got angry and then I met the

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officer and I said, call the IPIO. This is this

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is something we will just seat and be waiting around

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for the APPIO to come any time before they would

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take us to the moon.

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Speaker 3: Try. They said, they deposited his body.

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Speaker 2: Let him tell us how about it if it means

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the ip or having to speak with mortuary attendance to

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let us in or something. That was when the officer

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then made the cop to the IPO and then they

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said we could go to the mortuary.

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Speaker 3: Get it to the montuary. I was not allowed in.

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My family members got sin land. They were sure the.

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Speaker 2: Body and he came out to tell me, tell me

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that’s truly my husband was coming. My whole world chromboed,

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my whole world chromboard. Even as that, I still I

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didn’t believe it. I still hoped that it can’t be.

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I still hoped and prayed that there was no way

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I was going to end like that.

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Speaker 3: There was no way Masband’s life was going to end

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like that.

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Speaker 2: I still hoped, I still prayed. I was still in denial. Okay,

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this mode of may would.

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Speaker 3: Make it three months. I have been in denial.

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Speaker 2: I have been in total shock and for the fact

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that I have not seen him.

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Speaker 3: I have come to tempt that he’s gone. After that.

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Speaker 2: Day, I asked questions. His friend said they were already

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close to the house. For the fact, the highway the

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least saw our residence.

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Speaker 3: It’s under construction, so.

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Speaker 2: They didn’t know the other lane was blocked because they

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didn’t block it at the entrance.

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Speaker 3: So they came into the other lane. Getting close to.

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Speaker 2: The entrance to our residents, they saw the cushion line.

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His friend was the one driving. My hus dad didn’t

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go out to this car.

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Speaker 3: He went out with his friend and his friend was

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the one driving.

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Speaker 2: So when they sudden cushion line, he tried to reverse

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the car to make a full and used the order

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lane that they had left for motorists.

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Speaker 3: Who were coming and going to use.

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Speaker 2: While making that, you told the soldier accosted amand demanded

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for the car.

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Speaker 3: His friend said.

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Speaker 2: They said he told the soldier a sorry, we didn’t

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see it some time.

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Speaker 3: Besides, I was ready turning.

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Speaker 2: To go join the other motorists, and then he ignored

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the soldier and completed the turning, only fall into side

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the soldiers from his side mirror on a bike, chasing

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their car, shooting at a car that they drove, and

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they panicked, He said, I and my husband panicked for the.

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Speaker 3: Soldier to be shooting at the car. They panicked, and.

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Speaker 2: Then and the dog packing the car at the first

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station that wasn’t operating as the person he came down,

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he said. Friend said that came down first was running.

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He came down and then sawless stop running. And for

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the fact that for a long time I’ve known him

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to be someone that’s who do run in that situation,

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for the fact that he knows he has done all wrong.

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Speaker 3: He wouldn’t and should I was.

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Speaker 2: Why he stopped, should why he stopped when he realized

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I hadn’t done any crime. I hadn’t done anything wrong

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the way round. And when I think about it, I

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wish I wish he can’t run it. I wish he

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did stop. I wish I was I was going to

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shoot to kill. I wish he had considered dreading. But

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then he stopped and his friend around past it and escaped,

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and the eyewit necessary. The suy said. When the ISLDIA

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came to him, he was telling him that he wasn’t

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the one driving. He had told his friend to pull

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over let him know the issue why the Swoda will

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be shooting at the car.

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Speaker 3: What they planted that they don’t know wrong, so why

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should have them like that?

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Speaker 2: And then the soldier shot him.

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Speaker 3: So after he had shot at my.

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Speaker 2: Husband, he made to leave him there in the cool

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of his own blood. But then I witnesses accosted him

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and said.

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Speaker 3: He can’t leave him there.

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Speaker 2: That was when took him, took him and said they said,

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the officer said, the soldier said, He took him to

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a hospital.

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Speaker 3: And the doctor confirmed him Dad.

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Speaker 2: That was then then now took him to the police.

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Speaker 3: Station and from there to the mot.

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Speaker 2: Who then went to the hospital to ask The doctor

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said he cannot remember any victim or any patients that

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was brought in a wounded then a gone show to

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their patients that was brought in that you can’t remember

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having such case in his hospital on the fourteenth of

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February and.

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Speaker 3: Since then the events on.

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Speaker 2: The seventeenths on its Tuesday, the Commissioner of Police, the

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Brigade General deferred to Brigade General and endostics and representatives

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from the Vinia Saba Concession construction company. They visited, they

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pay a condolence visits. They visited in house said sympathized

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with the family and assured us that due process would

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be taken.

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Speaker 3: To see that the soldier is persecuted.

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Speaker 2: And they are sure that he was still in the

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police cost study. So we believed them. And ever since then,

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it’s been one meeting or the other, because they also

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agreed to compensate the family for the loss, even though

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I know that there is no amount of compensation that

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would ever replace my husband, so I would ever make

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up for his debts, and so of being going for

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meetings at the Commissioner’s office. Who has about three meetings

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at the Commissioner’s office, And till dates, nothing reasonable has

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been said, No news has been made to assure us

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that they are keeping to their awards of make is

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saw the soldier pays for his crime. But today I

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don’t know the name of the soldier. I don’t know

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the command he was.

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Speaker 3: Sent for nothing.

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Speaker 2: And these are things I asked for foreclosure. That was

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let me know his leave of the name of the

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man who killed my husband. But they’ve denied me directs. Okay,

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I said, I’ve sent a letter to the Commissioner of Police.

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Speaker 3: Take this matter to courts.

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Speaker 2: It’s been very remote. The lawyer sent out that letter

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take this matter to courts. Until dates, nothing has been done.

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That is a come out to plead, to vegue that

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anyone that can help me should please help me. All

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I’m seeking for is justice. All I’m looking for is

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justice for my husband. That is all I’m seeking for,

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Justice for my husband, the soldier identified. The soldier tried,

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I’d let it be on record that my husband was killed,

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that my husband was murdered. So now when I have

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children through.

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Speaker 3: We have a two years old son and another.

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Speaker 2: That I’m expecting to grow, and let it be a

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record that your father was not involved in any criminal activities.

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I wanted to borrow and have it on record that

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their father was killed. Was more that by a soldier

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I wanted to grow and thereby proof to back up

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this story that I tell them.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to grow.

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Speaker 3: I know that yes, for the soldier who shots their

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father was punished, but that stop.

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Speaker 2: As I am begging anybody anyone that can help.

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Speaker 3: To say that seek justice, get justice, So please thank you.

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Speaker 1: Earlier day after President Donald Trump of the United States

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of America, the USA announced the killing of Abu Blal

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al Meenuki, The second in command of the Islamic State

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in Iraq and Syria, ISIS in a joint operation with

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Nigeria soldiers. In Borno State, a new video of the

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abducted four hundred and sixteen women and children in Boco

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harm captivity has been released, in addition to a gory

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video earlier released by the terrorists wherein they beheaded almost

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six men who the insurgents said tried to escape among

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the kidnapped victims. This had led to public outcry and demonstrations,

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but according to Punch newspaper, protesters are reportedly denied the

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rights to protest in Ladaguri, the Borno State capital, saying

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the army reportedly deployed tanks and heavily armed personnel to

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filling Polo, the venue of the recent planned protest, forcing

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the demonstrators to withdraw, quoting Soamela Kaigamma, leader of the protesters,

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as saying the atmosphere created by the military deployment made

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it impossible for citizens to continue with the demonstration. That

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the development is deeply disturbing in a constitutional democracy. It

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may be recalled that we had reported that President Bola

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Ahmed Tenubu of Nigeria may have kept mute since more

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than forty eight hours. A faction of the Boco Harum

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terrorists showed off four hundred and sixteen people, mostly women

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and children, kidnapped and held hostage when the members of

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the Jamatu Ali’s Sonna literality Walgi hard Jazz launched a

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large scale combat actions between fourth to the sixth of

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March twenty twenty six against the men of the Armed

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Forces of Nigeria AFA over run the Africa Country Military

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base at in Gosh, killing several soldiers, a figure the

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Nigeria authority disputed to be fourteen after several reports indicated

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that more than forty soldiers were killed during the attack,

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in addition to more than one hundred civilians including Chief

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Imal of Vingosh alongside the community elders killed during the

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coordinated attacks that lasted days at in Gosh community in

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Guosa local Government area of Borno State. This During the attacks,

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numbers of people were also taken hostage by the insurgents,

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with speculations indicating that the hostages are apparently being held

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at the rugged terrain of the Mandara Mountains, which sit

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wide across the Nigeria border with Cameroon. In the released video.

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One of the spokespersons of the Boko Harum group said

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they decided to release a proof of life video of

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the four hundred and sixteen women and children in their

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captivity following the demands made across to them by the

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Borno South Youth’s Alliance Bossier and according to the statement

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issued by the bossier when they made the video public

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on Friday, April tenth, twenty twenty six, the Youth’s Group

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called on federal government and governments at all level to

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ensure the hostages are released, saying specifically that we have

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witness cases in states such as Socoto, Zamfara, Katsina and

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kevy Ware abducted victims regained freedom following interventions by individuals

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such as Sheik Armed Gumi. We therefore expect equal urgency

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and commitment in addressing the plight of being gosh victims.

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No region or group of citizens should be treated with

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less priority. In one of the recent videos sent by

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the Boco Harum terrorists to the Borno Youths Group, the

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group said Borno South Youth Alliance Bossia yesterday now some

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days ago at about five eighteen pm received a disturbing

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video showing the execution of about four to five men,

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both old and young, who reported attempted to escape from

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jazz Boco Harum captivity. We at Borno South Youth Alliance

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BOSSIA have tried every possible intervention and humanitarian process available,

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yet the four hundred and sixteen women, children and a

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few men in captivity have largely been abandoned to their fate.

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This video is not intended to promote terrorism or any

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act related to it, but rather to expose the painful

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reality on them ground, a reality we have spent over

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two months trying to prevent through continuous mediation and humanitarian

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pleas Borno South Youth Alliance Bossier is calling on well

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meaning Southern Borno indagens, political office holders, political aspirants, every

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patriotic Nigerian from the North, South, East and West, as

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well as international organizations to urgently come to the rescue

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of these four hundred and sixteen women and children by

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supporting efforts toward the release of the first fifty women

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and children. As earlier announced, four to five people are

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already dead, more victims are sick and some men who

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attempted to escape have now been killed. Lives are involved

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and unimaginable suffering is taking place in captivity among these

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helpless people who feel abandoned and forgotten. Boco Haram released

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new video of four hundred and sixteen in gosh S

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abducted women and children crying for help after being abandoned

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by state and federal government, including Borno South Senator. Let

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the world see and remember that the Nigerian government, Borno

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State government, the Senator representing Southern Borno, the House of Representatives,

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Member House of Assembly members and chairmen representing Guosa Local

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Government have abandoned these helpless women and children to their

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fate and have refused to secure their freedom by all

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possible means. Let the world human rights organizations and international

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bodies such as the United Nations, Amnesty International and other

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the see and remember how the lives of four hundred

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and sixteen women and children are being disregarded and devalued.

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Let the world know that under this government, four hundred

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and sixteen women and children were kidnapped and under both

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the federal and state governments, no meaningful action has been taken.

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Let the world hear directly from the mouths of these

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captives that their federal government has failed them. Their state

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government has abandoned them and their senator representing Southern Borno

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has ignored and even complicated the process of their release.

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Borno South Youth Alliance BOSSIA organized a peaceful protest in Maidaguri,

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the Borno State capital, but the government responded by deploying

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heavy military presence and formations as though we were terrorists,

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while the real terrorists move freely, kidnapping and killing our

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people daily with little or no resistance. If the world

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is truly watching, then let them know that we are

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facing oppression from both sides. Political slavery has silenced us

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for too long, but we will remain silent no more

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because they have shown us that we are only useful

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to them every four years during elections. Borno South Youth

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Alliance BOSSIA remains committed to humanitarian mediation and discussions toward

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the release of our engosh four hundred and sixteen women

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and children. Though we are exhausted and deeply disappointed by

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the lack of concerns shown toward our people and our

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peaceful existence, we still call upon the government, every well

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meaning Nigerian international organizations and even individuals willing to help

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secure the release of these helpless women and children. Already,

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some newborn babies and children have reportedly died from sickness

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and infections in captivity. More innocent lives may be lost

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if vergent action is not taken. Fifty women and children

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can be released today if fifty million naira is raised

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and offered to their captors. Nigerians, international organizations and compassionate

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individuals around the world are urged to help save these

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innocent life since the government has shown its true attitude

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toward these suffering people regardless of religion, let us consider

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humanity first. Some save their Muslims, so Muslims alone should

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help them out. Both Muslims and Christians are at the

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receiving end of this menace. Lets be humans before anything.

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With due respect to the President of the Federal Republic

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of Nigeria, His Excellency Bolah Ahmed to Nubu, the world

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Sow and Nigerian’s witnessed the kidnapping of four hundred and

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sixteen women and children in engosh who Ows, a local

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government area of Borno State. Yet the Presidency neither issued

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an official statement nor publicly addressed the situation. This has

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left many people in southern Borno asking painful questions, Are

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we not Nigerians? Is the President only for a specific

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part of Nigeria. We asked these questions because we observed

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that the Presidency released a statement concerning the kidnap teaches

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in Oyo’s state and assured the public that efforts were

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being made toward their rescue. That action demonstrated concern, empathy

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and leadership toward the people affected in Oyo State. On

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the other hand, the people of Borno State, particularly Southern Borno,

475
00:36:18,760 –> 00:36:21,280
have felt abandoned and ignored in the face of one

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of the most painful tragedies affecting our communities. Up until

477
00:36:25,679 –> 00:36:28,960
this moment, there has been little or no direct public

478
00:36:29,000 –> 00:36:32,400
reassurance from the Presidency regarding the safety and plight of

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the victims, despite security and protection of citizens being among

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the highest responsibilities of government. Borno South Youth Alliance BOSSIER

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therefore wishes to express its deep dissatisfaction and disappointment regarding

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what many people perceive as unequal concern toward the suffering

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of Southern Borno communities. On behalf of many concerned youths

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and inda genes of Southern Borno, we respectfully urge the

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Presidency to show that every Nigeria life matters equally, regardless

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of region, ethnicity, or religion. We believe that the people

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of Southern Borno deserve the same level of empathy, urgency,

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and public concerns shown to citizens in other parts of

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the country. At this critical time, our people need reassurance,

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protection and visible action from the highest office in the land.

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Samla Ibrahem Kaigamma, President Borno South Youthhilliance Bossier stated in

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numbers of press statements issued in recent days before the

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release of the new video of the abducted victims. The

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United States President Donald Trump had on Friday May fifteenth,

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twenty twenty six, based on America Time, announced that Abu

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Bellal Alminuki, described as the second in command of ISIS globally,

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was killed during a joint military operation carried out by

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American and Nigerian forces in Borno State. Trump said the

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operation was conducted under his direct order and involved what

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he described as a meticulously planned and very complex mission

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executed by both the United States military and the Armed

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Forces of Nigeria. According to Trump, the targeted operation successfully

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eliminated Almenuki, whom he called the most active terrorist in

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the world. He revealed that the ISIS commander had been

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hiding in Africa while allegedly coordinating activities linked to global

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terror operations. Tonight, at my direction, brave American Forces and

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the Armed Forces of Nigeria foolessly executed a meticulously planned

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and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorists

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in the world from the battlefield, Trump stated. The American

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president further claimed that intelligence sources closely monitored the ISIS

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leader’s movements before the operation was launched. He thought he

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could hide in Africa, but little did he know, we

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had sources who kept us informed on what he was doing,

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Trump added. Trump also praised the Nigerian government for cooperating

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with the United States during the mission, saying the partnership

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played a major role in weakening ISIS operations globally. With

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his removal, isis’s global operation is greatly diminished. Thank you

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to the Government of Nigeria for your partnership on this operation.

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God bless America, he wrote. Nigeria Defense Headquarters, in a

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press statement, said the Armed Forces of Nigeria, in collaboration

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with United States Forces, has successfully conducted a meticulously planned

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and highly coordinated counter terrorism operation resulting in the elimination

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of Abu Belal Alminuki, a senior ISIS leader and one

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of the world’s most active terrorists. The Precision operation was

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the result of our recently formed US Nigeria partnership and

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intelligence sharing efforts. Together, we have disrupted a violent terrorist

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network that endangered Nigeria and the broader West African region.

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Our efforts represent a major breakthrough in ongoing efforts to

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combat terrorism and violent extremism in Nigeria, the Lake Chad Basin,

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the Sahil Region and globally. Abu Bulal al Minuki was

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a key ISIS operational and strategic figure who provided guidance

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to ISIS entities outside Nigeria on matters relating to media operations,

533
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economic warfare, and the development and manufacturing of weapons, explosives

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and drones. His death removes a critical node through which

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ISIS coordinated and directed operations across different regions of the world.

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Intelligence further indicates that as recently as February twenty twenty six,

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Minuki may have been elevated to the position of head

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of the General Directorate of States, placing him the second

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most senior leader within the ISIS global hierarchy. Prior to this,

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Minuki served in twenty twenty three as the Nigeria based

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Al Fer Khan GDP OFFICEMA, overseeing ISIS linked operations across

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cos the Sahil and West Africa, including attacks against civilians,

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particularly ethnic and religious minority communities. The terrorist lead also

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maintained long standing operational ties with ISIS West Africa and

545
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was linked to the twenty eighteen Duchy kidnapping of over

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one hundred schoolgirls. Intelligence records further show that between March

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00:41:21,679 –> 00:41:25,880
twenty fifteen and early twenty sixteen, he facilitated the movement

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of fighters to Libya in support of ISIS operations in

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North Africa, before pledging allegiance to ISIS in twenty fifteen.

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Minuki was also recognized as a prominent leader within Bokoharam.

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The Armed Forces of Nigeria reiterate that this successful operation

552
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demonstrates Nigeria’s unwavering resolve to confront terrorism and deny extremist

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groups the ability to threaten national, regional, and international security.

554
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The operation equally underscores the importance of a Nigeria United

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States collaboration, intelligence sharing, a co ordinated military action in

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defeating transnational terrorist networks. The Defense Headquarters commence the gallantry, professionalism,

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and dedication of all personnel involved in the operation, and

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appreciates the continued partnership and support of United States Forces

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in the collective fight against terrorism. The Armed Forces of

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Nigeria remain steadfast in ongoing operations aimed at dismantling terrorist infrastructure,

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protecting civilians, and ensuring lasting peace and stability across the

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nation and the wider region. Major General samla Uber, the

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Director Defense Information, stated this on May sixteenth, twenty twenty six.

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In a follower p updates. The Defense Headquarters also stated

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that the Defense Headquarters wishes to provide clarification following a

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merging public discourse regarding the recent neutralization of a high

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profile terrorist commander, Abublal Almnuki during a joint operation with

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the United States Africa Command on the sixteenth of Mail

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twenty six. Certain media reports referencing a similar operation in

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twenty twenty four have mentioned the elimination of a terrorist

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commander bearing the same name. This has understandably generated questions

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about the identity of the individual recently neutralized. It is

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important to state that within the Northeast region and across

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the Lake Chad Basin. The use of similar or identical

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names aliases and non de gas is common among Icewap

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and boco Harum terrorists. This is essentially part of their

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indoctrination program, which is aimed at deliberately obscuring identities. This

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fact has been established over the years in the course

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of counter terrorism operations in the northeast of Nigeria. The

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abubilal Alminuki, eliminated on the sixteenth of May twenty twenty six,

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has been positively identified through human intelligence and technical surveillance

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as a senior global operative within the Islamic State network

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with direct links to international terrorist coordination, funding and operations

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across the Sahel. There is therefore no ambiguity in his identity.

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The strike is a significant milestone in our counter terrorism efforts.

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The Armed Forces of Nigeria, in partnership with the United States,

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remain committed to dismantling terrorist networks and will continue to

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provide verified information through official channels. The general public and

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the media are please urge to rely only on these

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sources to avoid confusion from coincidental main similarities. On May nineteenth,

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twenty twenty six, the Nigeria military said, the Defense Headquarters

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wishes to announce major successes in continuing counter terrorism operations

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in close coordination with United States Africa Command against ISIS

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terrorists in Northeast Nigeria. It will be recalled that the

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joined strikes started a few days ago. As of the

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nineteenth of May twenty twenty six, assessments indicate that one

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hundred and seven if five ISIS terrorists have been eliminated

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from the battlefield. The joint strikes have resulted in the

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destruction of ISIS checkpoints, weapons caches, logistical hubs, military equipment,

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and financial networks used to sustain terrorist operations. The operations

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have also resulted in the elimination of several senior ISIS leaders,

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including Abu Blal Almnuki, one of the most significant ISIS

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operatives in the world. Al Minuki played a central role

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in ISIS external operations, coordinating terrorist financing, recruitment, logistics, and

605
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attack planning, targeting Nigerians and innocent civilians around the world.

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His death severely disrupt SIZIS command operational coordination and external

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attack networks. Other terrorist figures eliminated include Abd al Wahab

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is SWAT, senior leader responsible for coordinating attacks and distributing propaganda.

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Abu Musa al Mangowi isw AP senior member and Abu

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Almathana almahajer I SWATS senior Media production team manager and

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close confidante to al Menuki. The joint strikes have further

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reinforced what the Armed Forces of Nigeria AFN have consistently

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done over the years hunt down and killed terrorists anywhere

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they are in Nigeria. The joint operations will continue to

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hunt down and destroy those who threaten our nation and

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regional stability. It may not be wrong to say one

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of the major root causes of crimes, poverty, poor health care, suicides, killings,

618
00:46:42,960 –> 00:46:46,880
and avoidable deaths today in the world is superstitious beliefs

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mixed with severe psychological manipulation, religious and spiritual delusions that

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often lead to family members abandoning their loved ones, especially

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their parents, for fear of being bewitched, doomed, or suffered

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from the delusional curse or spells superstitiously believed had been

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placed on their parents or loved ones, and this act

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who also lead to the accused family members committing suicides

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or being banished, beaten, or even killed by jungle justice,

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and in line with the numerous cases documented globally and locally,

627
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we have seen where individuals have committed murder or caused

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death due to acute spiritual delusions, which in psychiatry these

629
00:47:26,599 –> 00:47:31,119
are often diagnosed as cases of religious psychosist schizophrenia or

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clinical lycanthropy, where the perpetrator cannot separate objective reality from

631
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spiritual hallucinations. This may interest you to know that in

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August twenty twenty five, at Outward Lake in Ohio, United

633
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States of America, USA, an Amish mother, obviously suffering from

634
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a severe spiritual delusion, drowned her four year old son

635
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in Outwood Lake. Investigators revealed that both she and her

636
00:47:55,559 –> 00:47:59,760
husband believed God was speaking directly to them, demanding ritualistic

637
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tomme to prove their worthiness, and as such, she explicitly

638
00:48:03,800 –> 00:48:06,320
told the police that the Lord wanted her to perform

639
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the sacrifice. This may not also be different from the

640
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case of a twenty two year old Nigerian and unengineering

641
00:48:12,880 –> 00:48:16,440
student named Benjamin O. Beenham, whose life seemed to heavily

642
00:48:16,519 –> 00:48:20,440
revolved around his church, who suffered a sudden psychiatric break

643
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in twenty twenty five after his family initially mistook his

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erratic behavior for a standard demonic attack rather than a

645
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medical issue. Allegedly driven by the delusion that his mother

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and sister were witches spiritually plotting to destroy him, He,

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as a result of that, attacked his family, resulting in

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the death of his mother, but he was later diagnosed

649
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with schizophrenia under clinical custody. It may be recalled that

650
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one of the most famous historical cases of spiritual psychosis

651
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in the United Kingdom UK was the murder of Robert

652
00:48:52,840 –> 00:48:56,320
Dad in eighteen forty three by his son. The English

653
00:48:56,440 –> 00:48:59,599
artist Richard Dad stabbed his father to death on account

654
00:48:59,639 –> 00:49:01,920
of a delay delusion that his father was actually the

655
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devil in human form, and that he had been chosen

656
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by God to battle the forces of evil. This act

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00:49:07,960 –> 00:49:10,199
made him to spend the remainder of his life in

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psychiatric facilities, and in two thousand and eight, a passenger

659
00:49:14,400 –> 00:49:17,960
inside a Greyhound bus in Canada, Vincey killed a stranger,

660
00:49:18,239 –> 00:49:21,159
Tim McLain. Lee claimed that the voice of God told

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him McLain was an alien or a demon, and that

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if he did not kill him immediately, the man would

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come back to life and kill everyone else on the bus.

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And one of the most recent cases of crimes caused

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by superstitious beliefs occurred on Friday the ninth of May

666
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twenty twenty six at Bumuazili area of awo Omama community

667
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in Oru East Local Government area of Himo’s State, when

668
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Michael AKUJIOVII killed his uncle and two other elderly people

669
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on the ground that they were the evil forces behind

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his misfortunes and problems in the family. The suspected murderer,

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who said he returned from Legos State to his country

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home in in twenty eighteen to wage war against spiritual

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forces so that his father’s name wouldn’t go astray, confess

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to killing three people, identifying the first victim as his

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father’s senior brother and his uncle, Joseph Accugiobi. The other

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victims were another man and a woman. During his interrogation,

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the suspected murderer said, when he was in primary school,

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he could read and write very well, but along the

679
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line he was no longer brilliant, and thus he believed

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his uncle was the evil forces behind his academic misfortunes

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and other setbacks in life. Accordingly, the suspects said he

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came back to kill evil people who do not want

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the younger ones to grow and succeed in life, adding

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he was acting under the instruction of the spirit of

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God to eliminate evil people in the community. The suspect,

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who admitted of previously selling Indian hemp in the community,

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seems to be unremorseful despite the gravity of his actions,

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insisting he had won the battle and he knows the

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consequences of his action, according to the law, may be

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death penalty or condemned to life imprisonment. Michael ocugio Bi

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did not allege any specific personal wrongdoing, financial dispute, or

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physical abuse committed by his uncle against him. Instead, he

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framed the attack entirely around generalized spiritual warfare and occult cleansing.

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His action may not be unconnected with existing cultural superstitions

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00:51:23,440 –> 00:51:28,519
and psychological manipulation regarding spiritual hygiene, a cult warfare, and

696
00:51:28,599 –> 00:51:33,199
familial curses. This almost in a similar situation. Men of

697
00:51:33,239 –> 00:51:36,440
the Nigeria Police Force in an Ambra State in March

698
00:51:36,480 –> 00:51:40,960
twenty twenty two arrested Juju Priest among other people, for

699
00:51:41,039 –> 00:51:45,400
assaulting humiliating a woman accused of killing her husband simply

700
00:51:45,480 –> 00:51:49,280
because she slept or made love with another man. According

701
00:51:49,280 –> 00:51:53,880
to the Nigeria Police Force, its men arrested a Juju priest,

702
00:51:54,320 –> 00:51:57,559
Antonia Bagnier over the beating and nakedness of a woman

703
00:51:57,679 –> 00:52:01,119
round community in the state after she was allegedly accused

704
00:52:01,199 –> 00:52:03,760
by the native doctor of causing the death of her

705
00:52:03,840 –> 00:52:07,760
husband through infidelity. That then a Nambra State Police Commissioner,

706
00:52:08,079 –> 00:52:11,360
Ekeng Eking, said the Juju priest, who is not attrained

707
00:52:11,480 –> 00:52:15,159
medical doctor, confessed of administering herds to the deceased before

708
00:52:15,199 –> 00:52:19,039
he died. The police commissioner also said Antony Abannier also

709
00:52:19,239 –> 00:52:21,599
confessed he was the one that told the family of

710
00:52:21,639 –> 00:52:24,519
the deceased that his wife was responsible for the death,

711
00:52:24,880 –> 00:52:28,320
saying the said husband had been sick. Instead of taking

712
00:52:28,400 –> 00:52:32,239
him to the hospital, investigation revealed that his brother, mister

713
00:52:32,280 –> 00:52:35,599
Oudolore took him to Antony, a native doctor, where Antony

714
00:52:35,719 –> 00:52:39,199
confessed to having taken the decease on some spiritual cleansing

715
00:52:39,239 –> 00:52:42,639
and administered him some herds before he died. And it

716
00:52:42,719 –> 00:52:45,679
was Antony who allegedly told the family of the deceased

717
00:52:45,719 –> 00:52:47,840
that the cause of his death was as a result

718
00:52:47,880 –> 00:52:51,719
of the wife’s infidelity. In contrast to existing cultural and

719
00:52:51,840 –> 00:52:56,639
generational superstitious beliefs wrecking havocs in our society today. Kelvin

720
00:52:56,679 –> 00:53:02,239
Chimarobi Emanuel aka tel Armstrong Amobi, founder of car Truth podcast,

721
00:53:02,360 –> 00:53:05,920
on May fifth, twenty twenty six, took to his social

722
00:53:05,960 –> 00:53:08,719
media accounts and said he set a bet to prove

723
00:53:08,840 –> 00:53:12,639
his mother wrong that his father, who died years ago,

724
00:53:13,079 –> 00:53:16,599
was not killed by spiritual forces. Rather, he believed his

725
00:53:16,679 –> 00:53:20,639
father was poisoned to death by enemies, apparently within family.

726
00:53:21,000 –> 00:53:24,400
According to him, we were not just financially poor, we

727
00:53:24,400 –> 00:53:28,679
were mentally colonized by superstition. Their debas and prophets told them.

728
00:53:28,800 –> 00:53:32,360
As I grew, I faced serious setbacks. I felt like

729
00:53:32,440 –> 00:53:35,719
I was fighting spiritual forces. But I kept learning, I

730
00:53:35,800 –> 00:53:38,800
kept evolving, and then I began to see things clearer.

731
00:53:39,119 –> 00:53:42,039
When I began to succeed, the family thanked God and

732
00:53:42,119 –> 00:53:44,880
concluded that I was simply the one the juju could

733
00:53:44,880 –> 00:53:47,639
not catch. They said, God has chosen to save me.

734
00:53:48,159 –> 00:53:50,360
But what kind of a god saves one out of

735
00:53:50,440 –> 00:53:53,159
many when he has the power to save all. It

736
00:53:53,239 –> 00:53:57,400
was the kind of God that superstitious beliefs created. Verbatim,

737
00:53:57,760 –> 00:54:01,440
chim Obi said, I placed a better against my mother’s belief.

738
00:54:02,280 –> 00:54:05,119
I one, this is a private family matter, but my

739
00:54:05,280 –> 00:54:07,920
desire to pull someone out of a mental prison is

740
00:54:07,960 –> 00:54:11,760
stronger than my desire for privacy. Sir, I will share.

741
00:54:12,159 –> 00:54:15,639
I was born into poverty, not the soft kind, the

742
00:54:15,719 –> 00:54:19,679
cruel kind, the multi dimensional kind with different faces and

743
00:54:19,760 –> 00:54:23,840
different names. No one in my entire family’s bloodline ever

744
00:54:23,920 –> 00:54:27,719
owned a car. No one had meaningful wealth, No one

745
00:54:27,760 –> 00:54:32,480
attended university, no one held any position of consequence. No

746
00:54:32,599 –> 00:54:36,880
one ran a thriving business or understood how wealth is created.

747
00:54:37,320 –> 00:54:40,199
They had all sat on the passenger’s seat of survival

748
00:54:40,239 –> 00:54:43,519
and driven by their beliefs that wealth was beyond them.

749
00:54:43,800 –> 00:54:47,639
We were not just financially poor. We were mentally colonized

750
00:54:47,639 –> 00:54:51,480
by superstition. I was born into it. When my father

751
00:54:51,639 –> 00:54:55,480
died I was a very little boy. The family consensus

752
00:54:55,559 –> 00:54:58,920
was that enemies had spiritually killed him, but I believed

753
00:54:58,920 –> 00:55:02,639
he was simply poison. They also believed those same enemies

754
00:55:02,679 –> 00:55:05,840
had locked the destinies of his children, insuring none of

755
00:55:05,920 –> 00:55:09,880
us would amount to anything. The debias and prophets told them.

756
00:55:10,320 –> 00:55:13,800
My two older brothers believed it, my mother believed it.

757
00:55:14,079 –> 00:55:17,920
Every one believed it except one rebel, me and my

758
00:55:18,079 –> 00:55:21,440
rebellion was not even a sophisticated one. I did not

759
00:55:21,679 –> 00:55:24,719
have the theology or the philosophy to argue against it.

760
00:55:25,440 –> 00:55:28,239
I was just a stubborn little nobody who refused to

761
00:55:28,320 –> 00:55:31,519
accept that anything had the power to trap him. That

762
00:55:31,800 –> 00:55:36,400
was the whole arguments, pure a rational stubbornness. As I grew,

763
00:55:36,800 –> 00:55:40,480
I faced serious setbacks. I felt like I was fighting

764
00:55:40,519 –> 00:55:44,800
spiritual forces. But I kept learning, I kept evolving, and

765
00:55:44,840 –> 00:55:47,960
then I began to see things clearer. When I began

766
00:55:48,039 –> 00:55:51,280
to succeed, the family thanked God and concluded that I

767
00:55:51,400 –> 00:55:53,719
was simply the one the ju ju could not catch.

768
00:55:54,480 –> 00:55:57,360
They said, God has chosen to save me. But what

769
00:55:57,559 –> 00:55:59,800
kind of a god saves one out of many when

770
00:55:59,840 –> 00:56:02,679
he has the power to save all. It was the

771
00:56:02,760 –> 00:56:06,440
kind of God that superstitious beliefs created. That is, when

772
00:56:06,480 –> 00:56:09,559
I sat my mother down, I told her plainly that

773
00:56:09,639 –> 00:56:12,960
no juju is fighting this family. What we are fighting

774
00:56:13,079 –> 00:56:17,039
is a generational curse born out of ignorance, ignorance of

775
00:56:17,119 –> 00:56:20,760
how wealth is created. There is nothing spiritual about it.

776
00:56:21,159 –> 00:56:24,199
The enemy has no name and no face. It does

777
00:56:24,239 –> 00:56:27,760
not exist. She loved said, I was still a child

778
00:56:27,760 –> 00:56:31,079
in this area, regardless of how far I had traveled,

779
00:56:31,159 –> 00:56:35,440
or how much I had seen. I said, fine, let

780
00:56:35,519 –> 00:56:38,719
us bet. If I was simply lucky to escape, then

781
00:56:38,840 –> 00:56:42,360
luck cannot be replicated. So I will take the last

782
00:56:42,400 –> 00:56:45,360
born son, raise him the way a father would, and

783
00:56:45,440 –> 00:56:49,239
pour everything I know into him. If he also succeeds,

784
00:56:49,559 –> 00:56:52,760
you will accept that the chain was never juju. If

785
00:56:52,800 –> 00:56:57,079
he does not, I will concede. She agreed. I unofficially

786
00:56:57,119 –> 00:57:00,280
adopted my little brother when he was very young. I

787
00:57:00,360 –> 00:57:04,719
emptied myself into that boy, equipped him with profitable skills.

788
00:57:05,159 –> 00:57:08,119
To day, he is a big boy, makes good money

789
00:57:08,159 –> 00:57:13,079
for himself, sponsoring himself in university, building his own life.

790
00:57:13,519 –> 00:57:16,199
The ju ju could not catch me. It could not

791
00:57:16,400 –> 00:57:19,760
catch him either. I won the bet. My mother now

792
00:57:19,880 –> 00:57:24,239
understands the chain was never a curse. My forefathers were

793
00:57:24,239 –> 00:57:27,800
not cursed men. They were noblemen. They were simply men

794
00:57:27,840 –> 00:57:30,840
who believed a story that made them powerless, and they

795
00:57:30,880 –> 00:57:34,639
passed that story down like an inheritance. The chain was

796
00:57:34,679 –> 00:57:37,599
the belief. I share this because many of you reading

797
00:57:37,679 –> 00:57:41,599
this are still inside that same battle, fighting invisible enemies,

798
00:57:41,880 –> 00:57:44,639
collecting evidence for a war that only exists in your

799
00:57:44,679 –> 00:57:49,000
interpretation of events and the evidence feels real because you

800
00:57:49,039 –> 00:57:53,320
are refusing to analyze your situation critically or do anything differently.

801
00:57:54,119 –> 00:57:56,800
In my family, those who still hold on to the

802
00:57:56,840 –> 00:57:59,840
superstition as still making the same mistakes and blaming in

803
00:58:00,079 –> 00:58:03,880
visible forces. Those of us who stopped believing it blame

804
00:58:03,920 –> 00:58:08,599
only ourselves when we fail. That accountability is not punishment,

805
00:58:09,000 –> 00:58:12,840
it’s a real responsibility, and responsibility is the road to

806
00:58:12,880 –> 00:58:15,920
the life you want. If you can defeat the superstition

807
00:58:16,039 –> 00:58:19,280
living in your own head, you can defeat anything outside

808
00:58:19,280 –> 00:58:19,639
of it.

809
00:58:20,400 –> 00:58:24,679
Speaker 5: Okay, now look up? What is your name?

810
00:58:24,840 –> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 6: My name is Michael Apignogi. I’m from Umezai a mama

811
00:58:29,159 –> 00:58:30,280
or is local government?

812
00:58:30,679 –> 00:58:32,119
Speaker 5: Okay? What is a handwork?

813
00:58:32,480 –> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 6: My antwork in Ebo Land? Since I come to Eboland

814
00:58:35,639 –> 00:58:37,239
since twenty fifteen.

815
00:58:37,519 –> 00:58:41,079
Speaker 5: I buy pancanae you buy and say pan cane yes?

816
00:58:41,159 –> 00:58:41,199
Speaker 2: No.

817
00:58:41,320 –> 00:58:44,519
Speaker 6: But when I combat the first time from Legos, what

818
00:58:44,599 –> 00:58:45,719
I’m doing I said.

819
00:58:45,519 –> 00:58:47,719
Speaker 5: In them what you said in them?

820
00:58:47,960 –> 00:58:48,199
Speaker 4: Yes?

821
00:58:48,239 –> 00:58:54,079
Speaker 7: In my villageh Okay? Now are you married?

822
00:58:55,119 –> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 4: When I was selling I in Jaham, i am married.

823
00:58:58,559 –> 00:59:01,599
Speaker 6: I did my wife in Legos and exist that I

824
00:59:01,639 –> 00:59:04,280
want to go to my father’s plan to make my

825
00:59:04,320 –> 00:59:08,039
father’s name, not to go as trade. My father gave

826
00:59:08,079 –> 00:59:11,360
back to eight boys. It’s not just eight boys. I’m

827
00:59:11,360 –> 00:59:13,760
the only one that comes back to my father’s land.

828
00:59:15,719 –> 00:59:22,119
M Yes, sir, okay three days ago. You kid the

829
00:59:22,159 –> 00:59:23,039
three people.

830
00:59:22,960 –> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 7: On Friday, on Friday, Yes, okay, you kid three paper paper.

831
00:59:28,840 –> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 5: What are the names of those people you kid?

832
00:59:31,159 –> 00:59:31,599
Speaker 4: Yes, sir.

833
00:59:31,840 –> 00:59:34,079
Speaker 6: The number one person I kid in my the same

834
00:59:34,119 –> 00:59:36,800
building with me is my father’s inner brother.

835
00:59:37,199 –> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 4: His name is to serve up Blubb.

836
00:59:39,360 –> 00:59:40,199
Speaker 5: The second person.

837
00:59:40,480 –> 00:59:44,199
Speaker 4: The second person. When after I kid themand.

838
00:59:45,559 –> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 6: I went outside to go and look for EPA and

839
00:59:48,840 –> 00:59:50,480
right the desinity.

840
00:59:50,039 –> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 4: In my building, all the people in the vicinity and

841
00:59:52,920 –> 00:59:55,199
I run. People run.

842
00:59:55,360 –> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 6: It’s not I running for me. And I say one

843
00:59:59,400 –> 01:00:01,840
of my chairman, I’m gonna the chairman.

844
01:00:01,960 –> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 4: It’s for song.

845
01:00:04,039 –> 01:00:06,639
Speaker 6: Ma, I’m gonna the chairman’s for song. In that same

846
01:00:06,800 –> 01:00:09,119
you want to run, I’m not telling him, come here?

847
01:00:09,159 –> 01:00:09,679
Speaker 2: Are you mad?

848
01:00:10,320 –> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 4: Since you know me? Are they wrong? Before he said no,

849
01:00:13,519 –> 01:00:15,119
why do you just man that you want to run?

850
01:00:15,440 –> 01:00:16,079
He said they’re.

851
01:00:17,559 –> 01:00:17,719
Speaker 2: Bad?

852
01:00:18,320 –> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 6: I said it, it’s true. I I’ve win the battle.

853
01:00:22,119 –> 01:00:24,280
Since I’ve win the battle, I.

854
01:00:24,199 –> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 4: Have no more here to human being again.

855
01:00:27,960 –> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 6: Come inside here and I take the inside that place

856
01:00:30,719 –> 01:00:34,320
where they attaging the phone. Everybody that is there ave wrong.

857
01:00:34,840 –> 01:00:37,840
The person that holds the phone give everything wrong, and

858
01:00:37,960 –> 01:00:41,400
not that the boy sit down there, take a book

859
01:00:41,440 –> 01:00:44,719
and biral whoever that come here the apt phone year

860
01:00:45,119 –> 01:00:48,719
before you give him our phone light is them and

861
01:00:48,920 –> 01:00:54,199
his son name that I’m coming and now move straight

862
01:00:54,400 –> 01:00:55,480
out from that place.

863
01:00:56,000 –> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 4: May I want to go to a memry the faith

864
01:00:59,599 –> 01:00:59,920
of God.

865
01:01:00,239 –> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 2: Not that.

866
01:01:00,599 –> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 6: Let me back to human man and A started going

867
01:01:04,400 –> 01:01:06,320
down to my man. As I was going down to

868
01:01:06,400 –> 01:01:09,400
my man, I was giving God glow and honor for.

869
01:01:09,480 –> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 4: You to set me free.

870
01:01:10,599 –> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 5: No, no, no, you’re going far. What happened? Did they

871
01:01:13,920 –> 01:01:15,199
pay the second person?

872
01:01:15,440 –> 01:01:19,239
Speaker 4: That’s what I want to say. That that’s I’m saying that.

873
01:01:19,519 –> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 5: Okay.

874
01:01:20,320 –> 01:01:23,039
Speaker 6: As I was going to me man walk about, dom came.

875
01:01:23,760 –> 01:01:27,079
I stopped being Babylon. What is happening? I said, you

876
01:01:27,199 –> 01:01:30,039
would get Umar? Why are you as saying such? Wester

877
01:01:32,239 –> 01:01:35,360
go away from here? As I pushed humor Uman as somersault.

878
01:01:36,159 –> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 4: As Somersault, I want to Duma displayed that com back

879
01:01:39,320 –> 01:01:41,280
to me that too. Man is a even wo man?

880
01:01:41,519 –> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 5: Kid? And I kid, why did they used to ink

881
01:01:46,320 –> 01:01:46,840
with you? Sick?

882
01:01:48,119 –> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 4: I don’t use anything to push. It’s only I used

883
01:01:50,960 –> 01:01:51,360
to kill.

884
01:01:51,239 –> 01:01:54,639
Speaker 5: That your hands. Yes, you are giving her blows.

885
01:01:54,800 –> 01:01:57,840
Speaker 4: Yes, I was just eating out blow and she died.

886
01:01:58,039 –> 01:01:58,800
That’s how she died.

887
01:01:58,840 –> 01:02:02,039
Speaker 7: What the third person, the top person, mister olden singing

888
01:02:02,159 –> 01:02:03,639
Obo said Obo?

889
01:02:03,880 –> 01:02:07,039
Speaker 4: Mister saying Obo is he is the suit going in

890
01:02:07,119 –> 01:02:07,599
the diyeah?

891
01:02:08,199 –> 01:02:08,519
Speaker 5: Okay.

892
01:02:09,360 –> 01:02:12,239
Speaker 6: What made me to attack him? Also is the spirit

893
01:02:12,320 –> 01:02:16,159
of God that tell me that that man also is

894
01:02:16,199 –> 01:02:21,000
a bad person that actually getting down. I’m not chasing him.

895
01:02:21,719 –> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 5: I get it down.

896
01:02:22,960 –> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 6: I was better and better with my He says, I’m

897
01:02:25,519 –> 01:02:28,800
lacking an iraq, and I said the object with him,

898
01:02:29,440 –> 01:02:31,079
I’m not gonna let them I’m lacking.

899
01:02:31,159 –> 01:02:32,679
Speaker 4: He said, that is the way he died.

900
01:02:33,079 –> 01:02:35,159
Speaker 5: Okay. So he said that the spirit of God. In

901
01:02:35,199 –> 01:02:36,599
the spirit of God, I.

902
01:02:36,679 –> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 4: Said to kill the even ones that don’t want you,

903
01:02:40,119 –> 01:02:40,639
don’t I go.

904
01:02:40,719 –> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 7: To Okay, the spiriture of God was controlling you. We’re

905
01:02:44,360 –> 01:02:46,559
telling you what to do, yes, and you kill them

906
01:02:47,920 –> 01:02:49,679
under the control of the spirit of God.

907
01:02:49,800 –> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 2: Yes.

908
01:02:50,280 –> 01:02:54,159
Speaker 5: So the spirit of God in power as you or

909
01:02:54,280 –> 01:02:55,800
that is you to more people.

910
01:02:56,000 –> 01:02:58,559
Speaker 4: That is before this that when I go to market

911
01:02:58,599 –> 01:03:01,960
on Friday, you are medday. When I go to market

912
01:03:02,039 –> 01:03:03,840
on Friday, I will buy.

913
01:03:03,760 –> 01:03:08,519
Speaker 6: My cannon after me buying my Pan Canyon, after me

914
01:03:08,599 –> 01:03:11,840
buying my pan cannel on Wednesday, there’s the man that

915
01:03:11,960 –> 01:03:14,360
called me on phone. I told me that he wants

916
01:03:14,400 –> 01:03:17,079
me to buy a cannet for him, and I told

917
01:03:17,119 –> 01:03:19,039
him I’m not buy I’m not going.

918
01:03:18,920 –> 01:03:21,119
Speaker 4: To buy pancannet from you back and do.

919
01:03:22,960 –> 01:03:26,519
Speaker 6: Don’t decide and not I will know by pancannet for

920
01:03:26,599 –> 01:03:28,719
you that I have a master in a half hour

921
01:03:29,400 –> 01:03:32,559
that my master brought me market last time.

922
01:03:33,679 –> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 7: Let me ask you, listen, do you have misunderstanding with

923
01:03:36,360 –> 01:03:37,840
districtable you killed before?

924
01:03:38,239 –> 01:03:41,119
Speaker 6: It’s only one person I have misunderstanding with which of them?

925
01:03:41,320 –> 01:03:43,119
The first one I kill in my father’s as well

926
01:03:43,199 –> 01:03:46,079
as sing on my father. That’s the only which man

927
01:03:46,159 –> 01:03:46,840
I have problem with.

928
01:03:47,519 –> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 5: What was the problem with him?

929
01:03:49,239 –> 01:03:51,880
Speaker 4: Since in my childhood when I was in from my school,

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01:03:52,199 –> 01:03:52,920
I can read and.

931
01:03:53,000 –> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 6: Write very well as a big as today, unfortunately I’m

932
01:03:56,840 –> 01:03:59,800
on the line going to school in my parents school,

933
01:04:00,119 –> 01:04:03,199
I could not able to read a day. I am

934
01:04:03,280 –> 01:04:06,039
not able to spend. Again, I was not bothering with

935
01:04:06,199 –> 01:04:09,920
my life with my licens. Then that worke happened me

936
01:04:10,079 –> 01:04:12,320
and being not bought. In school, I reached why I

937
01:04:12,400 –> 01:04:15,079
write very well? What not apple that I am not

938
01:04:15,280 –> 01:04:19,760
able to read? Again along the line I have a

939
01:04:20,079 –> 01:04:23,480
prod them with my propector in school, in profess school.

940
01:04:23,960 –> 01:04:26,199
Speaker 5: Is mother still a life?

941
01:04:26,320 –> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 4: Yes?

942
01:04:26,719 –> 01:04:28,039
Speaker 5: Whatever your father is my father?

943
01:04:28,159 –> 01:04:28,199
Speaker 6: Is?

944
01:04:28,880 –> 01:04:29,519
Speaker 5: I am doing that?

945
01:04:29,639 –> 01:04:32,679
Speaker 4: Make make my brother’s bury my father in this image

946
01:04:32,880 –> 01:04:34,400
they want to bury my father in legos.

947
01:04:34,679 –> 01:04:38,039
Speaker 5: So having kided district people, now what is your what

948
01:04:38,280 –> 01:04:40,440
is your how do you say? What you did?

949
01:04:40,679 –> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 4: That is what I did? Is the money? Is that

950
01:04:43,679 –> 01:04:45,440
that’s not what you want to be supposed to do?

951
01:04:45,679 –> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 5: Okay, do that?

952
01:04:47,280 –> 01:04:49,119
Speaker 4: But based on the speaking to a.

953
01:04:51,599 –> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 6: Fund A lot of war over them in my room, mother,

954
01:04:55,440 –> 01:04:57,159
fact hours in my room.

955
01:04:58,599 –> 01:04:59,679
Speaker 4: That is I would not like to you.

956
01:05:00,039 –> 01:05:03,679
Speaker 7: You know the consequences of what you did, the legal consequences,

957
01:05:03,880 –> 01:05:05,920
the after effect that you.

958
01:05:06,000 –> 01:05:06,920
Speaker 4: Know, just study.

959
01:05:07,079 –> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 6: I know it’s life, imprisonments or stone to death. Okay,

960
01:05:11,360 –> 01:05:15,400
daddy when I count special attack. When I come back

961
01:05:15,440 –> 01:05:18,199
for my market after me and the man by game,

962
01:05:18,639 –> 01:05:21,400
then my wife was there. They had the conversation, I

963
01:05:21,519 –> 01:05:22,800
have we done that? I s called him on a

964
01:05:22,880 –> 01:05:24,719
phone that the man said, is let to buy me?

965
01:05:24,960 –> 01:05:27,599
And Canner wants don’t take you under. It may while

966
01:05:27,639 –> 01:05:30,599
my master in the markets, what is buying markets is

967
01:05:30,719 –> 01:05:31,400
last market?

968
01:05:31,599 –> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 7: If what they want us, don’t you okay, I will

969
01:05:34,039 –> 01:05:38,079
come again and you have confirmed that you you have

970
01:05:38,199 –> 01:05:41,920
confessed on your own. You run away after killing, after

971
01:05:42,079 –> 01:05:45,760
wandering this paper. Yes, I letter came out to yourself.

972
01:05:45,480 –> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 6: After I run it way those people, I kill them,

973
01:05:49,000 –> 01:05:51,719
their sons and daughters. Then I went to my wife

974
01:05:51,800 –> 01:05:54,480
shaw to go and kill my wife and my childran.

975
01:05:55,000 –> 01:05:57,559
But we’ve got to be the glory in fight for me.

976
01:05:57,719 –> 01:05:59,440
It is one that bring me back to this inning

977
01:05:59,679 –> 01:06:02,840
to my set is speaking free as they run to

978
01:06:02,960 –> 01:06:05,920
my wife shop, which contas with everything before. I run

979
01:06:06,000 –> 01:06:08,119
my wife shop, see what is going on? Then I

980
01:06:08,199 –> 01:06:12,159
rushed your speaking fight see your state. Okay, I’m guessing

981
01:06:12,639 –> 01:06:15,360
under were fighting them. They make my wife escape and

982
01:06:15,440 –> 01:06:18,760
my children when they’re making escape. I look at work,

983
01:06:18,840 –> 01:06:20,960
cannot do this paper? Am I going to be here?

984
01:06:21,000 –> 01:06:22,440
They will that mas my image?

985
01:06:22,719 –> 01:06:25,440
Speaker 5: What would I do? I’m not called one of my friends,

986
01:06:27,239 –> 01:06:29,800
one of your friends? Yes, to do what is juma?

987
01:06:30,920 –> 01:06:31,679
You called him to do?

988
01:06:31,800 –> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 6: What?

989
01:06:32,079 –> 01:06:34,239
Speaker 4: To help me? And call government to intervet because the

990
01:06:34,320 –> 01:06:37,400
god in this matter, they will take me in this place.

991
01:06:38,039 –> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 5: Okay, you called it. You know I did that you

992
01:06:39,880 –> 01:06:40,480
might interven.

993
01:06:40,840 –> 01:06:43,039
Speaker 6: Hey, you know I begged them a lot to call

994
01:06:44,000 –> 01:06:46,599
mister Utner of yourself.

995
01:06:48,159 –> 01:06:51,039
Speaker 4: I begged them a lot to help me. I begged

996
01:06:51,119 –> 01:06:51,599
him to.

997
01:06:51,719 –> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 6: Send is called to call myself way through for a year,

998
01:06:54,599 –> 01:06:57,320
said Jim was telling me, tolding me, telling.

999
01:06:57,159 –> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 4: Me that you called him, that the information that they

1000
01:06:59,519 –> 01:07:02,559
gave go back, which he.

1001
01:07:02,679 –> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 7: Have never Okay, it’s all right, I’ve heard you. That’s up,

1002
01:07:07,880 –> 01:07:12,920
So thank you for CONFESSINGA Yes.

1003
01:07:16,679 –> 01:07:22,039
Speaker 1: Bini family of Stephen obum Neme and Wosu has accused

1004
01:07:22,079 –> 01:07:26,360
the Armed Forces of Nigeria AFN, led by General Olafemi

1005
01:07:26,400 –> 01:07:30,119
olier Day, the Nigeria Chief of Defense Staff, of attempted

1006
01:07:30,199 –> 01:07:33,079
acts to cover up a soldier who allegedly murdered a

1007
01:07:33,199 –> 01:07:37,519
young man Stephen obum Neme and Woesu on February fourteenth,

1008
01:07:37,719 –> 01:07:42,360
twenty twenty six, Valentine’s Day along beneen Agbor Road around

1009
01:07:42,440 –> 01:07:46,920
Amufi Junction in Edo State. This according to the family member,

1010
01:07:46,960 –> 01:07:49,480
who pleaded for her names not to be mentioned in

1011
01:07:49,559 –> 01:07:52,079
the press, said her brother was shot dead by the

1012
01:07:52,199 –> 01:07:55,320
soldier after the deceased refused to hand over his car

1013
01:07:55,440 –> 01:07:58,880
key to the soldier as demanded, saying her brother only

1014
01:07:58,960 –> 01:08:02,480
went out with his friend she identified as Godwin Coco

1015
01:08:02,639 –> 01:08:05,559
to get chicken feed when they encountered the soldier at

1016
01:08:05,599 –> 01:08:08,920
the failed portion of the road that is currently under construction,

1017
01:08:09,480 –> 01:08:13,239
saying the Nigerian Army has refused to disclose the names

1018
01:08:13,280 –> 01:08:16,279
of the soldier who allegedly committed the act of murder

1019
01:08:16,439 –> 01:08:20,479
or take appropriate lawful actions against the suspected murderer. And

1020
01:08:20,640 –> 01:08:24,039
in a swift reaction, when our reporter contacted the public

1021
01:08:24,199 –> 01:08:28,640
Relations Officer of Full Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Captain

1022
01:08:28,720 –> 01:08:32,520
Kennedy and Yan muvaa phone call on Thursday evening, the

1023
01:08:32,600 –> 01:08:35,640
military authority said it is not true that the soldier

1024
01:08:35,840 –> 01:08:39,840
in question has not been identified, saying the matter has

1025
01:08:39,920 –> 01:08:43,039
been settled. And when our reporter demanded to know how

1026
01:08:43,199 –> 01:08:46,479
the alleged murder case was settled with the family, the

1027
01:08:46,560 –> 01:08:50,840
military authority refused to give details. Also, when our reporter

1028
01:08:51,000 –> 01:08:54,720
contacted the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force

1029
01:08:54,840 –> 01:08:59,760
public relations officer asp no accodium, the police authority said

1030
01:08:59,800 –> 01:09:03,000
them is under investigation and there is no way such

1031
01:09:03,119 –> 01:09:06,600
matter can be swept under the carpet. According to the

1032
01:09:06,680 –> 01:09:10,800
bereaved family member, on the fourteenth of February twenty twenty six,

1033
01:09:10,880 –> 01:09:14,239
at about ten a m my brother Stephen ovum Neme

1034
01:09:14,399 –> 01:09:17,079
and Wosu went to get chicken feed with his friend

1035
01:09:17,560 –> 01:09:21,319
Godwin Koko along the Benin Agbor Express Road, the failed

1036
01:09:21,399 –> 01:09:24,680
portion that is under construction at Amufhi junction in Benin,

1037
01:09:24,840 –> 01:09:29,159
Citi Edo State. Specifically, the friends said they were discussing

1038
01:09:29,239 –> 01:09:32,199
and did not see the road demarcation on time and

1039
01:09:32,319 –> 01:09:34,680
when they sighted it and were about to reverse, a

1040
01:09:34,800 –> 01:09:37,079
soldier blocked them and told them to hand over the

1041
01:09:37,159 –> 01:09:39,359
car key, but they told him that they are sorry

1042
01:09:39,439 –> 01:09:43,920
and will turn back, so immediately he started turning the car.

1043
01:09:44,399 –> 01:09:47,680
That got the soldier angry and the soldier started following him.

1044
01:09:48,520 –> 01:09:51,319
My brother reversed the car and joined the other lane

1045
01:09:51,720 –> 01:09:54,479
and from the side mirror, my brother noticed that the

1046
01:09:54,560 –> 01:09:57,520
soldier was running towards them. At this time, they were

1047
01:09:57,560 –> 01:09:59,920
two on a bike, but one left while the soldier

1048
01:10:00,039 –> 01:10:02,720
that they had the conversation with was still following them

1049
01:10:02,760 –> 01:10:06,319
with the bike man. At this point, he started using

1050
01:10:06,359 –> 01:10:08,720
his belt on the car and even shot at the car,

1051
01:10:09,560 –> 01:10:12,079
but my brother and his friend were still driving and

1052
01:10:12,199 –> 01:10:14,520
when they got to hold up, they packed at a

1053
01:10:14,600 –> 01:10:18,640
fuel station and started running by foot. While they were running,

1054
01:10:19,039 –> 01:10:21,520
the soldier fired shots at them, and the bullet landed

1055
01:10:21,600 –> 01:10:25,159
on my brother’s leg, and on a closed range, the

1056
01:10:25,279 –> 01:10:28,720
soldier shot him again on the same leg. People around

1057
01:10:28,800 –> 01:10:31,319
said that when the soldier shot my brother again at

1058
01:10:31,399 –> 01:10:34,920
close range, they gathered him, but the soldier told them

1059
01:10:34,920 –> 01:10:37,039
that the boy he shot was a robber, so they

1060
01:10:37,119 –> 01:10:40,319
did not touch the soldier man. The soldier was the

1061
01:10:40,399 –> 01:10:43,239
same person that carried the victim to the hospital. But

1062
01:10:43,319 –> 01:10:46,680
the hospital they mentioned when we went there, the doctor

1063
01:10:46,720 –> 01:10:50,039
said he had no such patient. We the family wants

1064
01:10:50,119 –> 01:10:52,439
to hear the soldier’s side of the story and who

1065
01:10:52,520 –> 01:10:55,039
sent him to murder that young man with bright future,

1066
01:10:55,479 –> 01:10:58,039
with a pregnant wife and a two years old child

1067
01:10:58,119 –> 01:11:01,840
and his aged mother, the only male child in my family,

1068
01:11:02,279 –> 01:11:05,239
the only one that speaks for us. We are fine, girls.

1069
01:11:05,600 –> 01:11:08,720
This is too painful for us. We all died that

1070
01:11:08,840 –> 01:11:11,760
same day. Don’t know if we can bear this lassou.

1071
01:11:12,600 –> 01:11:17,640
We just want to get the soldiers name, BARRICKI is from. Indeed,

1072
01:11:17,800 –> 01:11:21,199
Nigeria has happened to us. We had access to see

1073
01:11:21,279 –> 01:11:24,359
his body on the fifteenth of February twenty twenty six.

1074
01:11:24,880 –> 01:11:27,399
I think there are many stories about this one which

1075
01:11:27,479 –> 01:11:30,800
only the soldier and police needs to give. I need

1076
01:11:31,039 –> 01:11:34,279
justice for my brother. That same mortuary that the police

1077
01:11:34,319 –> 01:11:37,439
said we can’t visit that the fourteenth of February. I

1078
01:11:37,600 –> 01:11:41,000
have visited it many times since that fifteenth. They showed

1079
01:11:41,079 –> 01:11:44,359
us the place. So much evil is happening with our

1080
01:11:44,439 –> 01:11:48,039
security offices. A guy with the two years old child

1081
01:11:48,119 –> 01:11:51,439
and a pregnant wife just three years in marriage, what

1082
01:11:51,560 –> 01:11:54,760
should I explain to his wife? A lot is going

1083
01:11:54,840 –> 01:12:04,600
on under the military uniforms. Edo State Command of the

1084
01:12:04,720 –> 01:12:08,560
Nigeria Police Force NPF has announced the arrest of some

1085
01:12:08,840 –> 01:12:12,479
serving and already dismissed police officers who work together as

1086
01:12:12,520 –> 01:12:15,920
a criminal gang terrorizing members of the public in Edo State.

1087
01:12:16,399 –> 01:12:19,960
The State Commissioner of Police, Monday Agernica, who made this

1088
01:12:20,159 –> 01:12:23,319
known in a press release made available a few hours ago,

1089
01:12:23,800 –> 01:12:26,800
said the arrest was a major breakthrough against the suspected

1090
01:12:26,920 –> 01:12:31,319
criminal elements pretending to be law enforcement offices to perpetrate

1091
01:12:31,439 –> 01:12:35,760
heinous crimes within the state capitol, Benin City and its environs.

1092
01:12:36,239 –> 01:12:38,600
It may be recalled that there have been outcry by

1093
01:12:38,720 –> 01:12:42,319
residents in Edo State that law enforcement officers are committing

1094
01:12:42,520 –> 01:12:47,000
or participating in criminal activities in the state specifically, in

1095
01:12:47,079 –> 01:12:51,359
August twenty twenty five, some of policemen alongside some civilians,

1096
01:12:51,439 –> 01:12:54,600
were accused of abducting a resident in Benin City. The

1097
01:12:54,680 –> 01:12:57,760
syndicate was said to have used the silver Toyota Yaris

1098
01:12:57,840 –> 01:13:02,039
to terrorize citizens, seizing their phones and belongings through intimidation

1099
01:13:02,239 –> 01:13:06,399
and armed robbery. In December twenty twenty five, four policemen

1100
01:13:06,479 –> 01:13:10,119
were accused of extorting nine hundred and eighty thousand niras

1101
01:13:10,239 –> 01:13:14,800
from a local artisan goodness on Jekka after assaulting him earlier.

1102
01:13:14,880 –> 01:13:18,720
In September twenty twenty five, the Edo State Police Command

1103
01:13:18,800 –> 01:13:23,399
reportedly recovered and returned three hundred thousand niras extorted from

1104
01:13:23,479 –> 01:13:27,359
a furniture maker by offices attached to the Obermarket Area

1105
01:13:27,520 –> 01:13:31,800
Command in Benin City. May twenty twenty five, six offices,

1106
01:13:32,159 –> 01:13:36,560
including a Chief Superintendent of Police CSB, were summoned to

1107
01:13:36,600 –> 01:13:40,520
Abuja after a viral video showed them demanding either five

1108
01:13:40,720 –> 01:13:44,640
thousand niras or five liters of fuel from motorists for

1109
01:13:44,760 –> 01:13:49,960
lacking Electronic Central Motor Registry ECMR proof A policy that

1110
01:13:50,119 –> 01:13:54,279
had actually been suspended then. Also in August twenty twenty five,

1111
01:13:54,760 –> 01:13:58,359
six offices were disciplined for extorting two million niras from

1112
01:13:58,439 –> 01:14:01,880
members of the National Associateiation of Sea Dogs near Benin

1113
01:14:02,039 –> 01:14:05,920
City after they reportedly use the point of sale POS

1114
01:14:06,439 –> 01:14:10,479
machine to withdraw the funds unlawfully. According to the press

1115
01:14:10,520 –> 01:14:14,199
statement signed by the Edo State Police Command Public Relations

1116
01:14:14,279 –> 01:14:19,479
Officer ASP noo Acodeon, the Edo State Police Command, under

1117
01:14:19,520 –> 01:14:22,840
the leadership of the Commissioner of Police Edo’s State Command

1118
01:14:23,199 –> 01:14:27,920
CP Monday Agbonica FDC, wishes to inform the general public

1119
01:14:28,000 –> 01:14:30,960
of a major breakthrough in the fight against criminal elements

1120
01:14:31,039 –> 01:14:35,119
disguising as law enforcement offices to perpetrate heinous crimes within

1121
01:14:35,239 –> 01:14:39,600
Benin City and its environs. The Command had in recent

1122
01:14:39,720 –> 01:14:43,960
times received several complaints from members of the public alleging harassment,

1123
01:14:44,319 –> 01:14:49,359
abduction and extortion by individuals posing as police officers. These

1124
01:14:49,479 –> 01:14:53,800
suspects reportedly operate along Teboger Axis off Aduawa, where they

1125
01:14:53,880 –> 01:14:59,119
unlawfully stop unsuspecting citizens, forcefully convey them around various roads

1126
01:14:59,199 –> 01:15:02,199
within Benine’s city and eventually take them to point of

1127
01:15:02,319 –> 01:15:06,800
sale POS operators to fraudulently extort money from them under duress.

1128
01:15:07,720 –> 01:15:11,319
Disturbed by the gravity of these allegations, the Commissioner of

1129
01:15:11,399 –> 01:15:16,760
Police CP Monday Agbonica FDC immediately ordered a discreet and

1130
01:15:16,920 –> 01:15:22,439
intelligence driven investigation into the matter. Through sustained surveillance, technical

1131
01:15:22,479 –> 01:15:26,560
intelligence and co ordinated operations by operatives of the command,

1132
01:15:26,920 –> 01:15:31,359
the criminal network was successfully busted. The following suspects have

1133
01:15:31,520 –> 01:15:34,920
been arrested in connection with these crimes. Good Luck jar

1134
01:15:35,039 –> 01:15:40,000
Jar Mail pos Operator A s P. Bondi, Paul Lonaheat

1135
01:15:40,479 –> 01:15:46,479
Inspector Aubering Wisdom, Mail Inspector Arabine, God’s Power, Mail Corporal

1136
01:15:46,560 –> 01:15:52,399
Maudi Philip Mail, Destiny, Ommanuel Mail, dismissed police corporal Corporal

1137
01:15:52,479 –> 01:15:58,640
Ochanelvis Mail, Samuel Nicholas Mail, Mini bus driver, Eton Bright

1138
01:15:59,159 –> 01:16:04,840
Mail mini bus driver. Preliminary investigation reveals that the suspects,

1139
01:16:05,199 –> 01:16:09,000
including some serving and dismissed police personnel, formed a well

1140
01:16:09,119 –> 01:16:13,239
organized criminal syndicate responsible for a series of serious crimes,

1141
01:16:13,319 –> 01:16:18,600
including abduction and extortion of innocent citizens. They exploited police

1142
01:16:18,640 –> 01:16:22,920
accouterments to deceive victims and carried out their operations with impunity,

1143
01:16:23,399 –> 01:16:27,159
thereby bringing the name of the Nigeria Police Force into disrepute.

1144
01:16:27,960 –> 01:16:31,880
Those that are serving personnel are currently undergoing internal disciplinary

1145
01:16:31,960 –> 01:16:37,520
procedures including orderly room trials. Upon conclusion of these processes

1146
01:16:37,600 –> 01:16:40,880
and the ongoing investigation, they will be arraigned before a

1147
01:16:40,960 –> 01:16:43,840
court of competent jurisdiction to face the full weight of

1148
01:16:43,920 –> 01:16:47,720
the law. The Command hereby calls on all victims who

1149
01:16:47,800 –> 01:16:51,000
may have encountered or fallen prey to this organized criminal

1150
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gang to come forward and assist the police with useful

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information that will aid further investigation and prosecution. Furthermore, the

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Edo State SOO Least Command uses this medium to strongly

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warn or POS operators and merchants to be wary of

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any individual, including persons in police uniform, who attempt to

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01:17:10,479 –> 01:17:15,439
use their facilities for unlawful transactions or extortion. Any POS

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01:17:15,560 –> 01:17:18,720
operator found to be complicit in such a legal activities

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will be arrested and prosecuted accordingly in line with the

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mandate of the Inspector General of Police of the Federal

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Republic of Nigeria ig P, O Latunji rilwandisu PSC plus NPM.

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The Command reassures the good people of Edo’s State of

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its unwavering commitment to sanitizing the system restoring public confidence

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and ensuring that no individual, regardless of status, is above

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the law reach the command through TILDA the Complainant Response

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Unit CRU eight one three eight nine nine nine two

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till the Public Complaints Bureau PCB O eight one five

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O nine nine nine three three five. President Bola Ahmed

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Tenubu of Nigeria may have kept nute since more than

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forty eight hours a faction of the Boko Haram terrorists

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showed off four hundred and sixteen people, mostly women and children,

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kidnapped and held hostage. When the members of the Jumatu

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Ali’s Son a literity Walgi Hard Jazz launched a large

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scale combat actions between fourth to the sixth of March

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twenty twenty six against the men of the Armed Forces

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of Nigeria AFN overran the Africa Country Military based in Gosh,

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killing several soldiers, a figure the Nigeria authority disputed to

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be fourteen after several reports indicated that more than forty

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soldiers were killed during the attack, in addition to more

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than one hundred civilians, including Chief Imman of Ingosh alongside

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the community elders killed during the co ordinated attacks that

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lasted days at Ngosh community in Guosa Local Government Area

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of Borno State. This During the attacks, numbers of people

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were also taken hostage by the insurgents, with speculations indicating

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that the hostages are apparently being held at the rugged

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terrain of the Mandara Mountains, which sit wide across the

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Nigeria border with Cameroon. That aside, one of the spokespersons

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of the Boco Harum group said they decided to release

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a proof of life video of the four hundred and

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sixteen women and children in their captivity following the demands

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made across to them by the Borno South Youths Alliance

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BOSSIA and according to the statement issued by the BOSSIA

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when they made the video public on Friday, April tenth,

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twenty twenty six, the youth’s group called on federal government

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01:19:56,079 –> 01:19:59,079
and governments at all leveled to ensure that the hostages

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are released, saying specifically that we have witnessed cases in

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states such as Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and Kebbi Ware abducted

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01:20:07,840 –> 01:20:13,119
victims regained freedom following interventions by individuals such as Sheikh

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01:20:13,119 –> 01:20:16,920
Ahmed Gumi. We therefore expect equal urgency and commitment in

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addressing the plight of the Ngosh victims. No region or

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group of citizens should be treated with less priority. In

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the footage, several women and elderly men were interviewed by

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01:20:27,560 –> 01:20:32,159
the Boko Haram spokesperson. The kidnapped victims please centered on

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three main points directly addressed to President Bola Tanubu, Vice

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President Kashi Shatima and Governor Babigana Zulam, begging the President

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and Governor to find a way to bring them home

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within the shortest possible time. The captives expressed fear that

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a direct military assault on the camp where they are

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01:20:50,119 –> 01:20:53,520
being held could result in the deaths. They echoed the

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01:20:53,560 –> 01:20:57,319
bossier apparent sentiment asking the government to use the same

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01:20:57,479 –> 01:21:02,600
negotiation channels used in northern states like Zamfara, Katsina, Keve,

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Socoto and Kaduna states. While the terrorists claimed in the

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video that they are not torturing the victims, the captives

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highlighted that many children are falling ill due to the

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harsh conditions of the forest and the lack of proper

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food and medicine. The Borno South Youth Alliance Bossier, in

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a statement signed by its president Sirmila Ibrahem Kaigamma ab,

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made available on Friday alongside the proof of life video,

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said it wishes to inform the public that we have

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been actively and discreetly mediating for the release of our

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01:21:34,239 –> 01:21:37,920
Southern Borno brothers and sisters who were abducted when insurgents

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over Anning Gosh. Following days of engagement, discussions and humanitarian appeals,

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we were provided with an official figure of four hundred

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and sixteen victims currently alive in captivity by the abductors.

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This figure differs from earlier reports circulated by sections of

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the media which underestimated the true scale of the situation.

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Bossier remains the voice of Southern Borno youths and Inda genes.

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As such, we are committed to continuing all possible efforts

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through mediation, advocacy and engagement to secure the safe release

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of our people. Our actions are guided solely by the

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need to protect life and restore dignity to affected families.

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We wish to state clearly and unequivocally that Bossia does

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not support terrorism, insurgency, or the abduction of innocent civilians. However,

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as representatives of our people, we are prepared to take

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bold and necessary steps in pursuit of solutions, especially lasting

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01:22:37,560 –> 01:22:42,159
solutions to the persistent insecurity affecting our region. The voices

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01:22:42,239 –> 01:22:45,319
of the kidnapped victims must be heard, not just nationally

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01:22:45,640 –> 01:22:49,159
but globally. We therefore call on the following leaders and

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authorities to urgently intervene. The President of the Federal Republic

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of Nigeria, Bolah Armed to Nubu, Asswaju Bolah Ahmed to Nubu,

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01:22:58,800 –> 01:23:03,680
the Vice President, Kashim Shatimah Kashim Shatima, the Distinguished Senator

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representing Southern Borno, Muhammad Ali and Dume, all relevant government

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01:23:08,720 –> 01:23:12,880
officials and stakeholders at both federal and state levels. We

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have witnessed cases in states such as Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina

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and keb Ware abducted victims regained freedom following interventions by

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01:23:22,199 –> 01:23:27,199
individuals such as Sheikhamat Gumi. We therefore expect equal urgency

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01:23:27,319 –> 01:23:30,319
and commitment in addressing the plight of the Ngosh victims.

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No region or group of citizens should be treated with

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01:23:34,119 –> 01:23:38,279
less priority. The freedom, safety and well being of the

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01:23:38,399 –> 01:23:42,640
abducted victims from Woza, particularly those from Ingosha, non negotiable.

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We urge the government to act decisively, just as they

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have been doing in other parts of the country. Furthermore,

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we call on the Nigerian government, international partners, the United Nations,

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and global leaders including Donald Trump, to support efforts toward

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the safe and a Bedia release of all abducted victims,

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among them the vulnerable groups including infants, young children, elderly

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01:24:07,680 –> 01:24:12,399
individuals and women in extremely fragile conditions. Let it be

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known to the world that Bossia is actively mediating and

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advocating for the release of Southern Borno indigenes held captive.

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We also call on both the Nigerian government and the

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Borno State government to demonstrate visible and measurable efforts in

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securing their freedom.

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