PHOTOS:JUSTICE FOR THE MURDER OF JOY ODAMA BY ALHAJI USMAN ADAMU IN ABUJA

Parents of a Cross River State University undergraduate, Joy Odama, who was allegedly murdered by an Alhaji in Abuja have cried out for justice. Below is a statement the grieving family shared on Facebook:

RE: CALL FOR JUSTICE FOR THE MURDER OF MY DAUGHTER, JOY ODAMA BY ALHAJI USMAN ADAMU.
My name is Mrs Philomena ODAMA. I am a native of Yala LGA in Cross River State. I am resident at old Karmo village in Abuja.
Joy Odama is my first daughter. She is a 200 level undergraduate of Mass Communications at the Cross River State University; who just returned for Christmas holidays and met her untimely death.
JOY ODAMA

On the 18th Dec, 2016, one Elizabeth from Ogoja LGA, Cross River State who is my daughters friend visited us and told Joy to accompany her to see one Alhaji Usman Adamu who she said was a philanthropist that gives scholarship to young students. She said the Alhaji lives in the same neighborhood, precisely at Ibro Quarters, Old Karmo-Abuja.

Knowing Elizabeth as a long time friend and without any suspicion, she innocently followed her to the said Alhaji’s house. On getting there, my daughter called me that the Alhaji wants to see me.
I asked why and she said that the Alhaji wants to help her with her education with other girls who lives in the neighborhood who are there with their parents. I quickly got to the house and Alhaji Usman ADAMU promised to help in my daughters education and equally promised to get me a job with the Nigerian Security & Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC).

We exchanged numbers, i graciously thanked him and left with my daughter. Two days later on the 20th December, 2016 in the evening, Alhaji Usman ADAMU called my daughter and said his house help is seriously sick and that she should please come and look after her while he goes to get a doctor.

He also said he has called other girls (i.e the other girls we saw in his house the previous day). Joy told me and i allowed her to go. That was the last time i saw my daughter alive.
After a while on the same day, i called Joy and she said she was at the house with the other girls and will soon be coming back. About an hour later, when she was not yet back, i called severally but she did not pick.

Out of curiosity, i called Alhaji Usman ADAMU on his number 08179606208 but he too did not pick. I became more worried and went to the house but couldn’t gain access to Alhaji’s apartment.
The next morning, i called Joy and Alhaji ADAMU several times to no avail. Eventually, Alhaji ADAMU picked his call and to my surprise, he pretended not to know who i was nor who Joy was. When i pressed further he said ” did anything happen to Joy” as if she does not know where she is. At this point i knew all was not well.
JOY ODAMA
In panic, i called my husband (who was not around at the time due to the nature of his work), my relatives and neighbors and we all agreed to report to the police. As we were about stepping out to the police station, we saw two policemen in our house who asked us to follow them to the police station at Karmo.

On getting there, the DPO informed us that all the girls that went to Alhaji’s house are all unconscious; that one is not responding to treatment while the others are responding.
We requested to see Joy but we were turned down and asked to come back the next day. We pressed further but the DPO insisted we go and come back as directed.
The next day being 22nd December, 2016 i went back to the police station in company of relatives and a lawyer who is a close family friend. To my utter shock, i was told that my daughter was dead and has been taken to the mortuary.
We asked to know how, why and what led to Joy’s death and the DPO, CSP NKEM RAPHAEL declined further comments.

Our lawyer asked if the Alhaji has been arrested but CSP NKEM RAPHAEL bluntly told us that as far he is concerned, Alhaji is not culpable, no crime has been committed, that my daughter died a natural death and he cannot arrest Alhaji Usman ADAMU.
DPO NKEM told the lawyer to take the matter to his superiors but that he has already informed them about the matter and as far as they are concerned, Alhaji ADAMU cannot be arrested. We requested to know the whereabout of my daughters corpse and the other girls responding to treatment so we can interview them.

The DPO directed us to Federal Medical Center, Airport Road Abuja and on getting to the mortuary, we discovered body has already been embalmed. When we asked why my daughters body was embalmed without our knowledge, one of the attendant’s confided in us that Alhaji Usman ADAMU first brought the dead body in the early hours of 21st Dec,2016 claiming to be the father of the girl.
But on seeing the body, they suspected foul play and insisted that they will not admit the body until they see a police or doctor’s report.

Alhaji Usman ADAMU left and came back with DPO NKEM RAPHAEL of Karmo Divisional Police who ordered them to immediately embalm the body.

We also discovered that the other girls the DPO claimed were on admission in the hospital were not there. We went back to the police station to find out why our daughters body would be embalmed without our prior consent. At the police station, i saw Martha, one of the girls whom i met at Alhaji Usman ADAMU’S house.

She was by the police counter and i asked her what happened to Joy and she narrated the following; ”
on the 20th of December, 2016 Alhaji Usman ADAMU called her to come to his house, that he has already called the other girls to help him look after his house help who was very sick. But her elder brother ( Emmanuel, who was also in the police station with her) stopped her from going to Alhaji’s house that day.

But that she sneaked very early in the morning to Alhaji’s house the following day and on getting there she was shocked at what she saw.

She saw my daughter , Joy ODAMA lying lifeless on the floor and the other girls were stooling and vomiting. She became afraid and tried to run out of the house but Alhaji Usman ADAMU and some inside the house held her back and brought her to the police station. When i was about asking her further questions, some police men shouted at her to stop talking and whisked her away.

We went back again to the DPO, CSP NKEM RAPHAEL to ask why my daughter was embalmed without our knowledge and that we heavily suspect foul play and demanded for an explanation and further investigation.

The DPO reiterated his initial position and bluntly told us not to pursue this case further, that he would advise us to dialogue with Alhaji Usman ADAMU for our daughters burial. He insisted he has nothing more to do with us until we agree to meet with Alhaji Usman ADAMU.
On the advise of a family friend, we agreed to meet with Alhaji Usman ADAMU to shed more light on what actually transpired.

On the agreed date of the meeting being 24th Dec., 2016 by 10am, we were at the police station with our lawyer but on sighting the lawyer, the DPO lied that the meeting has been postponed.
When the lawyer asked why, he said that the Alhaji was not around and that his number is not connecting, that he will call the lawyer and inform her of the next date for the meeting.

Immediately the lawyer left, the DPO quickly called us inside his office and we were so surprised to see Alhaji Usman ADAMU sitting right there. The DPO told us to put off our phones and drop it on his desk , that he does not want the meeting to be recorded. In attendance was the DPO, CSP NKEM RAPHAEL, DCO, SP MICHAEL OBIORA, the Inspector

Crime and Alhaji Usman ADAMU.
On our side was my husband, myself, relatives and a family friend.
The DPO was the first to speak. He said if we know what is good for us we should agree to whatever the Alhaji will offer us and desist from further pursuing this matter.
Alhaji Usman ADAMU then offered to settle the matter with Three Hundred Thousand Naira(N300,000) and we became infuriated with anger, left home and informed the lawyer what happened.

The lawyer insisted that further investigation be carried out. The DPO again called for a second meeting where we met with AIG Umoru Usman Shehu; AIG Intelligence, Force Headquarters Abuja.
AIG Umoru told us bluntly also that investigation in this matter is closed and cannot be reopened. He said Alhaji Usman ADAMU should add an additional One Hundred Thousand Naira (N100,000) to his initial offer.

He told us harshly that that is the much he can do in this matter and that is his final decision and it is in our best interest to accept the offer. At this point, apparently sensing the threat in his tone, a family friend present called us aside and advised that we collect the money to give them a false believe that we have agreed to their terms while we go home and think of the next line of action, including having it as an exhibit.

As it stands now, it is very visible the blind and audible to the deaf that Alhaji Usman ADAMU has people in high places within the Nigerian Police Force and have connived with them to deny our poor family justice.

So, i am passionately pleading and calling on the government and the general public to come to my aid so that my daughters gruesome death will not be in vain.

Investigations has revealed that my daughter, Joy Odama is not the first girl that Alhaji Usman ADAMU has killed on the pretext of helping them.

I am using this medium to appeal to all to help me seek for justice in the painful death of my daughter.

Thank You.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs Philomena ODAMA.

UPDATE:PRIME SUSPECT IN THE MURDER CASE OF JOY ODAMA WHO DIED MYSTERIOUSLY IN ABUJA SURFACES

The prime suspect in the murder case of 200 level student of the Cross River State University of Science and Technology, CRUTEC),Joy Odama,  ( read the stories here)who died mysteriously in Abuja in December last year, Alhaji  Usman Adamu, has surfaced. Adamu went into hiding after the mother of the deceased petitioned the police following the mysterious way her daughter died.

Family lawyer to the deceased,  Rose Mbata, told Vanguard that Adamu appeared unexpectedly at a meeting that was called for by the police hierarchy in Abuja yesterday. She also said that the Inspector of Police had ordered a fresh autopsy to be carried out.

Recall that an autopsy carried out at the National Hospital, Abuja, and released some days ago, showed she died of acute cocaine poison.
"On arrival at Force headquarters, the Inspector General instructed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of the IGP Monitoring to conduct preliminary hearing on the matter and revert to him. In the cause of the preliminary hearing, surprisingly the prime suspect in the case, Alhaji Usman Adamu, who the police had said was at large, suddenly appeared at the meeting room in company of some policemen. With a stern and fiery look on his face, he exchanged pleasantries with the police and took his seat. At the end of the hearing, all parties were now taken to see the IGP, who was not on seat. The parties were informed by the DCP that on the instructions of the IGP, a fresh autopsy shall be conducted. The parties were requested to report at the National Hospital, Abuja tomorrow (today) for a fresh autopsy to be conducted where other consultant pathologists shall participate in the exercise. The DCP Monitoring later informed us that the Nigeria Police shall bear the cost of the fresh autopsy contrary to the Police earlier refusal to foot the bill"the lawyer said

UPDATE: ALHAJI WHO ALLEGEDLY KILL MISS JOY ODAMA DECLARED WANTED

The Abuja-based Alhaji Usman Adamu , who allegedly killed one Miss Joy Odama,(Read the story here) a 200 Level Mass Communication undergraduate of Cross River State University, has been declared wanted by the Police Force Headquarters.

Aside declaring Alhaji Adamu wanted, the Force Headquarters also said the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Karmo, where the alleged murder took place (names withheld), has been queried, removed and transferred over what was described as “professional misconduct” over Joy’s death.


Confirming the issuance of arrest warrant on Alhaji Adamu, the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Jimoh Moshood, said: “The said Alhaji Adamu is on the run, but we are looking for him because he has a case to answer.



The autopsy report from the National Hospital, Abuja, has revealed that Joy died of acute cocaine poison. Late Joy Odama The report indicated cardiogenic shock secondary to diffusion as part of cause for death.



The report reads in part: “The cause of death was traced to cardiogenic shock secondary to diffusion, myocardial infarction secondary to possible acute cocaine poison.”



Meanwhile, the Governor of Cross River State, Prof Ben Ayade, have stepped into the case and promised to bring the killer of Odama to book, and also constituted a strong legal team to pursue the matter to logical conclusion.

“All Police Commands across the country have been alerted that the Alhaji is a suspect in the death of Miss Joy Odama and should be arrested if seen anywhere.

On the transfer of Karmo DPO, Moshood confirmed his query and removal, saying it was for inefficiency.
It could be recalled that in a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris; the Senate President; Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives; Yakubu Dogara, the mother of the deceased, Philomena Odama, said that the last day she saw her daughter was when she left for Alhaji’s place.

She also lamented that the Alhaji later offered the family N400,000 to drop the matter after it was reported to the Police.

PA MASABA BIDA: STRETCHES POLYGAMOUS TO ITS LIMIT... 86 WIVES AND 170 CHILDREN

 Pa Muhammadu Bello Abubakar Masaba Bida,aka Muhammadu Bello Masaba, 90, a Nigerian man who stirred up controversy in his hometown of Bida, Niger State, when he married 86 wives, and fathered 170 children.  This Islamic scholars stretches polygamous to its limit, according to Islamic teaching,  a Muslim man can marry up  to four wives, mandating they must be all treated equally.

 "If God permits me, I will marry more than 86 wives. A normal human being could not marry 86 – but I can only by the grace of God," a defiant Bello Masaba told The Christian Science Monitor during a recent prison interview. "I married 86 women and there is peace in the house – if there is peace, how can this be wrong?"  Pa Masaba boasted.

Bello who formerly worked as a teacher and Imam  lived with his family in an entire apartment block. Bello claims that he never pursued his wives, and claims that they sought him out due to his reputation as a healer. In interviews with Al Jazeera English, one of his wives, who  claimed to be the 3rd wife said, her husband  was a good husband and father.

After the death pronouncement on Masaba by an Islamic group, Jama'atu Nasiru-l Islam (JNI), the Bida Emirate Council and an assembly of Islamic leaders invited him (Masaba) for interrogation. At the end of their deliberations in Etsu Nupe's palace Bida, a verdict was read out by the Etsu Nupe of Bida himself, Alhaji Yahya Abubakar, that Masaba should divorce 82 out of the 86 wives within 48 hours or leave the entire Nupe Kingdom as his safety could not be guaranteed within the kingdom. However,at the expiration of the ultimatum, Pa Masaba refused to divorce any of his wives and denied ever promising to do so.

Despite this, Bello was arrested in late 2008 by Islamic authorities and tried before a Shariacourt. Before his trial at the Sharia court, Police in Niger State gave the super polygamist of Bida a clean bill, as the state command declared that nothing incriminating was found in the house of the controversial husband of 86 wives. The leader of the police team that arrested the Islamic cleric in Bida in the wee hours of that penultimate Monday before 27 September 2008,

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr John Olayemi declared:
"We found nothing incriminating in his house. There was no knife, no pistol or skull in his house when we went to invite him to the headquarters for a chat."

But when asked why the police went ahead to arrest Masaba, the police Boss explained that the command only acted on an instrument of Upper Sharia Court.
While in detention in Minna Prison, an Upper Sharia Court Judge in Minna, Alhaji Abdulmalik Imam, on 6 October 2008 transferred the case of Masaba to a Chief Magistrate's Court in Minna after admitting lacking jurisdiction but Masaba was still remanded in prison custody at the instance of the Sharia Court.

Following the case, Bello advised other men not to follow his example:
"A man with ten wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah. That is why I have been able to control 86 of them," he told the BBC.

Afterwards, on 12 November 2008, a Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja ordered the release of Masaba from detention in Minna Prison with immediate effect. The trial high court judge, Justice G.O. Kolawole attached no condition to his release. The judge also ordered the then Inspector General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro, to ensure the protection of Masaba's fundamental rights to life, liberty and privacy, as enshrined in the 1999 constitution of Nigeria, through theNiger State Commissioner of Police. Then, Masaba returned to his hometown, Bida, on 13 November 2008.
Contrary to some media reports, that Masaba divorced 82 out of his 86 wives, he refused to divorce any of his wives and denied ever agreeing to such.

In July 2011, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, the governor of Niger State, justified the position of Masaba's refusal to divorce any of his wives when he was quoted, "though we have Sharia in place in the state, but we have no law to pin him (Masaba) down".

The Speaker of Niger State House of Assembly, Barrister Adamu Usman, disclosed that various attempts to prosecute Masaba ran into hitches because there was no provision in the law of the state to effect his prosecution.

Barrister Adamu Usman ,Niger state Attorney General said:
"As Attorney General then I personally appeared before Sharia court, Minna, as prosecutor to prosecute the man but later discovered that Sharia courts in Niger State cannot deal with the case. No provision made in Penal code C.P.C or sharia administration of Justice law to deal with such cases."

Alhaji Muhammadu Bello Abubakar Masaba Bida, who is living peacefully as a law-abiding citizen of Nigeria in his hometown, Bida,said rhetorically that: "Large number of wives? I only have 97 wives. I am still going to marry more. I will keep marrying them for as long I am alive. Whoever is fighting me because of my wives or love life, such an individual has missed it. Left for me, I would have married maybe two wives, but what I am doing is divine. It is an assignment and I will keep marrying till the end of time. I just want to advise those fighting against the number of my wives to stop because such people are waging war against God, their creator.”

(Additional Story: Wikipedia)

NB: As far as am concern, this gentleman is a law abiding citizen, he never breach any law of the land, and hence he is enjoying his fundamental human right, period.

IGP REDEPLOYS TOP COPS AGAIN

Police press statement...

In line with the determination and drive to enhance the administrative and operational effectiveness of the Nigeria Police Force, IGP Suleiman Abba, CFR, NPM, NPOM, mni has with immediate effect.

The postings are in line with efforts to reposition the Force, filling vacancies created and in view of Officers proceeding on course at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru, Jos as well as posting of returning Senior Officers from NIPSS.

                     Ag.CP EMMANUEL C. S. OJUKWU, psc

                      FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,

                      FORCE HEADQUARTERS, Abuja

 See it after the cut...

S/N	RANK	NAME	FROM	TO
1.	CP	Danladi Y Mshelbwala	Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit (EOD)	Kebbi State
2.	CP	Ibrahim K. Idris	Police Mobile Force(PMF)	Kano State
3.	CP	Shuaibu L. Gambo	Sokoto State	Counter Terrorism Unit, FHQ
4.	CP	Musa Katsina Mohammed	NIPSS	Oyo State
5.	CP	Usman Tilli Abubakar	NIPSS Jos	Jigawa State
6.	CP	Olufemi David Ogunbayode	NIPSS Jos	Zamfara State
7.	CP	Waheed Olayikan salau	Airport Command	NIPSS Kuru Jos
8.	CP	Dorothy A. Gimba	NIPSS Jos	Airport Command
9.	CP	Foluso A. Adebanjo	Edo State	NIPSS Kuru, Jos
10.	CP	Agboola Oshodi-Glover	ICT, FHQ, Abuja	NIPSS Kuru, Jos
11.	CP.	A.K. Shodipo	Oyo State	Special Fraud Unit FHQ, ABJ
12.	CP	Idris Faruk Umar	Jigawa State	CP Intelligence
13.	CP	Usman Yakubu	Nassarawa State	NIPSS Kuru, Jos
14.	CP	Mohammed Sani Usman	Dept of Planing & Statistic, FHQ ABJ	Nassarawa State
15.	CP	Ibrahim Adamu	Abia State	NIPSS Kuru, Jos
16.	CP	Salisu Fagge Abdullahi	Special Protection Unit (SPU) FHQ ABJ	Sokoto State
17.	CP	Lawal Shehu	Bauchi State	CP Dept of Finance & Admin, FHQ ABJ
18.	CP	Nyats Nyehsu Jatau	CP Railway Lagos	Taraba State
19.	CP	Tijani Baba	Zamfara State	CP Special Protection Unit, FHQ ABJ
20.	CP	Mohammed K. Mohammed	Deputy Commandant Police Staff College, Jos	Bauchi  State
21.	CP	Paul E. Okafor	Kogi State	Bayelsa State
22.	CP	Vanletine U. Ntomchukwu	Bayelsa State	Ogun  State
23.	CP	Ademola Omole	Taraba State	Deputy CMDT, Police Staff College, Jos
24.	CP	Joshak Habila	CP Counter Terrorism Unit FHQ ABJ	Abia   State
25.	CP	Damilola Samuel Adegbuyi	Special Fraud Unit FHQ ABJ	Edo State
26.	CP	Rasheed Olatunde I. Akintonde	CP Intelligence  FIB FHQ	CP Interpol FHQ ABJ
27.	CP	Adeyemi O. Samuel Ogunjemilusi	CP Interpol, FHQ ABJ	Kogi State
28.	CP	Ishaku Alhaji Barau	Kebbi State	Commandant Police Detective College, Enugu.
29.	CP	Sam Okaula	State CID Delta State	General Investigation, FCID FHQ ABJ
30.	CP	DibaL Paul Yakadi	2i/c Anambra State	Police Mobile Force FHQ ABJ
31	CP	Haruna Huzi Mshelia	National Defence College, ABJ	Commandant Police College, Orji-River, Enugu
32.	CP	Usman Ali Abdullahi	Police Co-operative	CP Railway Command
33.	CP	Mohammed A. Mustafa	2i/c Akwa-Ibom State	Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit, FHQ ABJ