A six-year-old boy has erroneously killed a housemaid with the gun of his father in Aba, Abia State.

Police detectives from the Ogbor Hill Police Division, Aba, have commenced investigations into the killing.

It was gathered that the underage child reportedly picked the father’s gun from his bedroom, thinking that it was a toy gun and not knowing that it was loaded.

A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “The child pointed the gun at the maid and playfully said, ‘I will kill you,’ and upon pulling the trigger, the gun went off and a bullet hit the housemaid.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, Abia State Command, ASP Ogbonnaya Nta, confirmed the homicide case.
The case was said to have been transferred to the state Department of Criminal Investigation.

Meanwhile, the Medical Director of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, Dr. Eze Nwokocha, has reportedly been kidnapped by some gunmen in Aba, the commercial hub of the state.

The medical practitioner was allegedly abducted at about 7pm on Sunday around Allwell Crescent, near the Aba Fire Service Station.

A source close to the medical director said he was returning to his house after attending a village meeting when the assailants, who had trailed him, blocked his car and took him away in another vehicle.

It was gathered that the suspects had contacted the family and demanded a ransom of N50m.

The victim’s family members could not be reached for comments as of the time of filing this report.

The PPRO said the kidnap case had yet to be reported to the police.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has confirmed an allegation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he had N300m in one of his accounts in Zenith Bank with number 9013074033.

The governor’s Special Adviser on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said this in a series of tweets on Facebook under the hash tag ‘Fayose speaks.’

Fayose, however, maintained that he deposited the money into his fixed deposit account before he was sworn-in as governor and had declared it in his asset declaration form.

He, therefore, rubbished the EFCC reports that he deposited the money in April 2015, six months after he had become governor.

Olayinka tweeted, “I declared in my assets declaration form that I had N300m in my fixed deposit account in Zenith Bank #Fayose Speaks.”

He maintained that he never received campaign funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser in 2014.

He added, “I did not get money from the NSA Office to fund my election. It is just a conspiracy; it will fail like that of 2006.

“By the end of this month, we are starting a social welfare scheme in which 7,000 people will be getting N5, 000 per month #FayoseSpeaks

“We deceive ourselves too much in this country. Even our population that they said is 150 million is not true.”

The EFCC, which has since frozen the account had alleged that Fayose’s associate, Abiodun Agbele, allegedly received N1.219bn from the ONSA on behalf of Fayose and then paid part of the money into the governor’s current account and company account.

The commission had also alleged that Fayose personally moved N300m from the money and used it to open a fixed deposit account in April 2015.

The EFCC had said, “Abbey (Agbele) directed the bank to pay N137m into the account of Ayodele Fayose with number 1003126654 and Bank Verification Number 22338867502. The bank teller dated June 26, 2014, was filled by Abbey with teller number 0556814.

“Abbey directed the bank to transfer N118, 760, 000 to the same account and paid in N50m cash into Fayose’s account.”

– Punch