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PICTURE OF THE SLAVE TRADERS

This is the picture of the two Nigerian men who decided to go back to the days of Slave Trading...

The two suspects who alledgely sold a 23 year-old girl for 1.2 million into slavery in Kuwait are currently being by the operatives of National Agency For Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in Lagos. The suspects, identified as Paul Akpogherhe, 26; and Theophilus Ebiowei, 28, were arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command, Festac Division after receiving complaints about their activities and how they sold the victim into slavery in Kuwait.

Crime Alert gathered that towards the end of April, the girl, identified as Okoangbele Quincy, met a young man called Paul Akpogherhe, in Festac, where she had attended an event. Eventually, they became friends and exchanged contact addresses.

After weeks of consistent communication between the duo, Paul introduced her to Theophilus Ebiowei and another person simply called Akin, who promised to help her secure a lucrative job abroad, in one of the Middle-East countries since she is a skilled caterer.

The prospects of securing a job outside the shores of Nigeria got Quincy interested as they pledged to help her process her visa and other necessary travelling documents. The suspects reportedly invited her to Festac where they explained to her that it would cost about N450,000 to process her visa and travelling documents to Kuwait.

When she got to home in Ikorodu, she explained everything to her parents. They assisted her in raising some amount of money which she added to her savings. After processing the traveling documents, they linked her with a female agent in Kuwait.

Unknown to her, the agent is a human trafficker in Kuwait. By the first week of June, she boarded a flight to Kuwait, and on arrival, the agent picked her up from the airport in Kuwait. Narrating her ordeal, Quincy, a daughter to a military officer said:

“Trouble started when the agent asked me if I had been briefed by the people who introduced me to her? I said no, but they said you would help me secure a job. To my surprise, the agent then told me that she had bought me from those people and that I was now her slave.

I told her that was not the arrangement. I explained to her that Paul and Theophilus said she will help me secure a job as there are better job opportunities in Kuwait, and they never mentioned they were selling me into slavery.

“She told me that I had no choice and that she has spent money to buy me and that she must get value for her money’s worth. Sensing that I may cause her trouble, the agent immediately sold me to another family who now recruited me as a slave.

“I was given a uniform worn by slaves in Kuwait. Anyone that sees me wearing that uniform immediately knows I am a slave and treats me like a leper. Apart from performing menial jobs, I was subjected to different inhuman treatment as a slave.

“As soon as it dawned on me that I was now a slave in a strange country, I began to seek ways to escape. Luckily, I met another Nigerian girl who has also been a slave to another family for almost a year, so she was a bit familiar with the area.

I told her that I wanted to go back to Nigeria since what I was being subjected to is not what I bargained for. She said there was no way of escaping, except we get to the Nigerian embassy in Kuwait. So, we both agreed that whenever we got an opportunity, we would flee to the Nigerian Embassy.

“As God would have it, the opportunity came and we left but not without hitches, as every taxi we stopped refused to halt because we were clad in a uniform which identified us as slaves. After attempting to board a cab for several hours, we pleaded with an Indian woman to help us stop a taxi after narrating our ordeal to her, since we had no clothes other than the slave uniform we wore to change into.

“The Indian woman stopped a taxi while we stood far off. She pleaded with the taxi driver to take us to the Nigerian Embassy. That was how we were able to get to the embassy where we got help. When we got to the Nigerian Embassy, the officials after listening to us, assisted us with necessary traveling documents to travel back to Nigeria. It was at the airport that officials bought clothes for us to change from the slave uniform before boarding a flight to Nigeria.”

Crime Alert gathered that Quincy’s sister was to join her in Kuwait when she called her family to tell them not to send her sister and that she has been sold into slavery. The victim’s family supported her travel plans for a job abroad, unsuspecting that the suspects had another plan.
It was learned that while Paul feigned ignorance, denying that he never knew that it was human trafficking, Theophilus admitted to committing the crime, stating that it was Paul that brought Quincy to them. He also said that they shared the proceeds from the sale which the woman in Kuwait paid.

Although she didn’t come with any of her personal effects from Kuwait, members of her family were happy she came back alive. She was later admitted in the hospital for days after she arrived. The case has been transferred to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for further investigation while efforts are on to arrest fleeing members of the gang that sold her into slavery.

Source: Vanguard

Observances Today and Publich Holidays

JULY 17th




O:) Christian:
*Alexius of Rome (Western Church)
*Martyrs of Compiègne

Constitution Day (South Korea)

Independence Day (Slovakia)

King's Birthday (Lesotho)

World Day for International Justice (International)

Peach Ice Cream Day

Hari Raya Idul Fitri (Lebaran Mudik)
..Lebaran or Idul Fitri is the popular name for Eid al-Fitr in Indonesia

17 July - 18 July (Shawwal 1-2) Eid al-Fitr

TODAY's BIRTHDAY(S)

Our first celebrant of the day is 
Donald McNichol Sutherland OC

Donald Sutherland

Born July 17, 1935 (age 80) *bday*

Canadian actor who played Hawkeye Pierce in the 1970 movie, M*A*S*H

Other films
*The Eagle Has Landed
*The Dirty Dozen
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers
*The Italian Job
*The Hunger Games

All four of his sons are named after directors that he's worked with.
He married his third wife, Francine Racette, in 1972

HBD to The veteran actor =D>

17 JULY HISTORICAL EVENTS

MH17

1994 - Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship

1995 - Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world,  $12.9B

2009 – Two suicide bombers detonate themselves at two separate hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia.

2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed

Happy Eid-el-Fitr

Happy Eid Mubarak

MR PRESIDENTS MESSAGE ON Eid-el-Fitr

Fellow Compatriots, I greet and felicitate with you all, especially our citizens of the Islamic faith on this auspicious occasion of the 2015 Eid-el-Fitr celebrations.

I congratulate all those who have successfully completed the Ramadan fast in keeping with the injunction of our Creator.

Although we have come to the end of this year’s month of Ramadan, I believe that a greater acceptance by Nigerians of its key lessons of self-denial and sacrifice will serve our dear country well as we strive to overcome our present challenges, undo the damage done by years of bad governance and accelerate the pace of national development.

Reviewing our dire circumstances and the many missed opportunities of the past, some commentators and observers have said that this is Nigeria’s last chance to get its act together and finally begin to fulfill its God-given potential for greatness.

While not going that far, I certainly believe that now, more than ever before, our country needs greater self-denial, sacrifice and patriotism from all of its citizens, if we are to quickly recover from our numerous problems and start moving in a positive direction.

This current period of our life as a nation offers us a great opportunity to break from the vicious triangle of insecurity, corruption and under-developme

nt. We must collectively resolve to seize this opportunity and unite to confront our problems.

I remain wholly committed to giving the required leadership towards undoing the wrongs of the past, ensuring that Nigeria truly begins to unlock its great potential and that the benefits of our immense national resources are shared and enjoyed by all, not just by successive cabals of corrupt leaders and their cronies.

I was very aware of your high expectations when I assumed office and I reassure you, my fellow citizens, that since my inauguration on the 29th of May this year, I have been working with utmost dedication to meticulously plan and tackle the many national challenges which we identified and promised to resolve.

To succeed however, I need your continued support, understanding and patience.

I fully understand and share the thirst of my long-suffering compatriots for corruption-free government institutions that work efficiently to deliver visible development for the benefit of all citizens.

I also share the feelings of those who think that we should be moving faster. But I urge them and all Nigerians to trust that my commitment to real and positive change in our nation is as firm as ever.

There is indeed much work to be done, but we must do it well and carefully to ensure that the great opportunity which we now have is not lost to the “business as usual” group who selfishly or shortsightedly prefer a status quo that panders to their personal or group interests.

The adverse effects of years of rot, corruption, inept and bad governance on our nation are immense, but certainly not insurmountable if we all resolve now to place the well-being of our nation above all other considerations and work whole-heartedlywith the present administration to achieve greater peace and security across the nation, and reposition our country for faster economic development and progress.

May Almighty Allah continue to guide us and bless our dear nation.

I wish you all happy Eid-el- Fitr celebrations.

Mr PRESIDENT