Five South African Police Beat Nigerian To Death

Five Limpopo police officers beat a Nigerian man to death, the Polokwane Magistrate's Court heard on Thursday.

“I put it to you that you beat him, he fainted and you resuscitated him. He woke up and... you beat him again,” prosecutor Jacky Mabasa told the officers during cross-examination. “You also sprinkled water on him.”

The five, Boitumelo Ramahlala, Mashiba Mathata, Collins Sekoati, Thabo Mabotja and Clement Tsotsane, face murder and assault charges. They were applying for bail.

They are accused of beating Onyechiabi Iwuaka to death on May 21 while he was visiting a friend. His friend escaped the assault. Iwuaka died on the way to the Polokwane police station.

The court was told the officers stopped on the way to the police station to buy water, as Iwuaka was bleeding from his ears.

Mabasa said an ambulance was called for Iwuaka after he died.

“The reason you cannot tell me specifically what you did that day is because you assaulted him. That's why you cannot tell what you did,” Mabasa said.

The court was told Iwuaka was merely in his friend's home, and was the wrong person to be arrested.

The five evaded questions, and said they never accused or hurt anyone. This prompted magistrate Janine Ungerer to question if they shared the same holding cell. She suspected they had coached each other on how to respond to questions.

The bail application was postponed to Monday.

APC Disregards Rumours Concerning Nomination Of Ministers

 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disregard media speculations concerning the nomination of ministers and advised Nigerians to do the same.

The party has urged Nigerians to disregard the wild speculations making the rounds concerning the appointment of ministers and the zoning of offices under the incoming Buhari government.

      

The APC released a statement by Lai Mohammed, its National Publicity Secretary, in which the party stated there is no truth to anything that has been dished out anywhere, concerning the issues of appointment, especially the zoning of the National Assembly’s principal positions and other offices.

The party said that in the true tradition of the APC, all issues of public interest will be handled transparently and conveyed to Nigerians through the usual communication channels.

The statement read in part: “No appointments have been made and no offices have been zoned. The main concern of our party at the moment is to ensure a smooth transition and to hit the ground running, in the overall interest of the long-suffering people of Nigeria".

”At the appropriate time, Nigerians will be informed of the appointments made and the offices zoned.”

US set to sanction Patience Jonathan, Orubebe, others

First, it was the extradition of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ogun central senator-elect Buruji Kashamu to the United States but gradually the flood light of the US seems to beam on wife of the President, Patience Jonathan and a few others who attempted to disrupt the just concluded elections or instigated any violence.

Along with Patience Jonathan former Niger Delta minister, Godsday Orubebe and governor of Katsina state, Ibrahim Shema are going to be sanctioned by the US.

The US said Monday that it will impose visa restrictions on any Nigerian found to have incited violence or interfered with the electoral process.

The US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said in a statement that the US will shut its doors on people involved in any form of violence during the polls.

“Anyone found to have incited violence or interfered with electoral processes will be unwelcome in the United States and subject to visa sanctions,” Ms. Thomas-Greenfield said.

Although Thomas-Greenfield did not give names of those considered for sanctions, Patience Jonathan, Orubebe, Shema and others who became an item on social media across the globe for inciting violence and trying to scuttle the elections seems to have put themselves in pole position for this sanction.

Thomas-Greenfield said, while the elections were generally without a significant scale of violence, and irregularities in some parts of Nigeria, some people were resolved to undermine the will of Nigerians and interfere with electoral processes, resorting to violence and voter intimidation.

She said the US regretted any loss of life and property during the process, adding that violence and rigging was unacceptable in a democratic electoral process.

She commended the Independent National Electoral Commission and its chair, Attahiru Jega. She also encouraged Nigeria and other nations to continue to explore the use of relevant technologies in future elections.

“Despite some technical glitches, it is clear that technology and use of social media-INEC’s online posting of results for each polling unit, live tweeting of results, the use of biometric permanent voter cards and electronic card readers- improved efficiency and limited fraud.”
“Now more than ever, it is up to all Nigerians to stay united so that Nigeria can move forward with a clear set of priorities for the future. This next phase is critical as the world continues its hopeful watch for what happens in Nigeria,” she noted
She added that Nigeria’s “democracy will be a beacon across the continent and beyond.”
Thomas-Greenfield said the US looked forward to the inauguration of the president elect, Muhammadu Buhari, on May 29 and the beginning of a new chapter of the relationship between the two countries.
It would be recalled that Orubebe accused the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, of bias, and asked him to resign on national TV before the announcement of results from states could continue.
Although he apologised for his shameful act, his action has however spoken louder than words.
On her part, Patience Jonathan incited violence during a PDP Women Campaign in Calabar, Cross River state, when she said that anyone chanting ‘Change’ (The All Progressives Congress’s campaign ‘word’) be stoned.
In the video which is an item on YouTube, she said: “I’m telling you, anyone that comes and tell you change, stone that person. What you did not do 19 kilikili, is now that age has caught up with you, you want to come and change? You can’t change rather you will turn back to a baby. You will turn back to a baby. From old age nothing, so nothing like change. Rather (it) is continuity.”

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Nigeria is not yet free of Ebola- Minister Of Health

The minister had announced on Tuesday, August 26, 2014 that the disease had been successfully contained in the country after reducing the list of confirmed cases to just one.

However, he said yesterday, August 27, 2014, that it is not time to celebrate yet as there is still a high risk of the disease in the country.
His words:
 “Let me just say that I don’t want us in Nigeria to move from panic to euphoria. The media has been working so well with us and we commend them for that but some of the headlines today (Wednesday) suggest that you may push the public to euphoria which again will be a problem.
“Yes, Nigeria is doing well on containment. Containment is like you have got an animal into a cage but it is not yet dead. But at least if you know where to now concentrate than when that animal was roaming. That is what we have achieved.
“We now know where the disease is in Nigeria. All of them so far in Nigeria have been traced to Mr. Patrick Sawyer. But we know there is nothing stopping someone coming with a fresh case from anywhere in the world.
“That’s why we say Nigeria has been successful with containment. But have we eliminated the disease? No. Because as we speak, there is a case we are still managing and that case must also have had her own third degree contacts apart from the number of people that are still under surveillance.
“So, until we give a clean bill of health to every contact, we cannot really say that we have eliminated the disease”.
Since Sawyer brought the disease into the country, 4 Nigerians have died and 7 others have been treated and discharged.

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