A kidnapper in Rivers State has led a police team to the bush where they kept a prominent Rivers Chief after he was kidnapped, then later killed and buried despite his family paid N10m ransom for him to be freed.

The kidnapper and other members of his hang where later nabbed and was asked to lead them to where the chief was buried.

They are all presently standing trial for the murder of the chief at the Rivers State High Court. Talk about evil deeds! Even after ransom?

We reported on Thursday that the members of a vigilante group from the Igbanonmaje area in Benue State arrested an Okada rider identified only as Daniel who is a resident of Ogiri Okoh Street in Otukpo, on Wednesday after he allegedly r*ped an 8-year-old girl in his room on Ogiri Okoh Street, to a point where the girl became unconscious.

It was gathered that the suspect poured water on her to resuscitate her, after which he sent her home. The girl’s mother became suspicious when the she came back home walking with her legs apart, and the girl explained that Daniel forced himself on her after he had told her to help him buy food.

The victim’s mother was said to have raised the alarm, after the girl said Daniel inserted his manhood in her and did not know anything again. “She said by the time she woke up in his room, he saw the man pouring water on her,” a resident told Saturday PUNCH.

After vigilantes in the area were reportedly alerted, they went in search of Daniel who is a native of Ado Local Government Area of the state, and arrested him a few hours later and handed him over to the police.

He confessed to the vigilantes that even though he had tried to r*pe the girl, he left her alone because he could not penetrate her.

“Because my manhood was too big for her, I could not penetrate and had to leave her alone,” he told the vigilantes, and also denied raping the girl to the point of coma.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Moses Yamu, confirmed the incident, stating that the victim was now in police custody, adding that investigation was till ongoing on the case.

There was tension in the University of Ibadan on Friday as a threatening message that purportedly emanated from a group, al-wilayat al-Islamiyya Gharb Afriqiyyah, was circulated among some staff of the institution and on social media platforms.

According to the message, the group threatened to bomb the school before Independence Day on October 1, 2016, saying that students and staff were their targets.

When contacted, The Director of Communication, UI, Olatunji Oladejo, dismissed the threat, saying it was the handiwork of mischievous individuals who wanted to cause commotion in the school.

Our correspondent gathered that while some lecturers got the mail through their institutional e-mail addresses, others were copied through social platforms such as Whatsapp.

In the mail, the group described the university as an embarrassment to Nigeria for bringing western education.

It was observed that security arrangement was strengthened at the school gates with scanning devices deployed while stop and search was conducted on everyone entering the school, leading to a gridlock.

The letter read in part,

“You people are an embarrassment to Nigeria and are the people that brought in western education to Nigeria. You doomed this nation and in turn you all are going to be doomed. Most of you are going to die before Independence Day. You will not spend the Independence Day in peace, you and your students.

“Detonation will start going from tomorrow till Independence Day and there is nothing you can do as we are among you. Even your little searches at the gate won’t do anything. By the time we are through with you, your government will be sorry.”

Speaking on the alleged threat, Oladejo said like others, he also received the letter, while saying that it had not affected the peace of the school.

He said, “I also got it. Anyone could instigate such thing. Some people could be mischievous. Our international students are having their carnival on the campus and everywhere is peaceful. I attribute it to the handiwork of mischievous individuals and vehemently deny any commotion.”

Police Public Relations Officer of the state police command, Adekunle Ajisebutu, told our correspondent that the command had received information on the threat to lives and property on the campus and had responded appropriately.

He said, “We have received the information. The state Commissioner of Police, Samuel Adegbuyi, working in concert with the other security agencies, has put in place all necessary security arrangement to forestall such an ugly incident.

“We have deployed our intelligence officers to provide adequate security in the school. As it is, it is still a rumour but we don’t want to take things for granted and because of this, we have provided adequate security, not only for the school, but for the people of the state.

“We enjoin members of the public to go about their lawful businesses and to be law-abiding.”