Woman Hit by Stray Bullet

A mother of two, Fati Ali, who was shot in the head by a policeman, is still grappling with the bullet that lodged in her brain. Ali was in a car along with a family friend on March 31, 2012, when a bullet fired by a policeman at a checkpoint at Niteco area, Minna, Niger State, pierced the rear window, hit the back of her head and lodged in her brain. She was immediately rushed to the General Hospital, Minna, but the hospital referred her to the National Hospital some day.

Ali, who was admitted to the National Hospital, Abuja, about three months ago, has undergone several surgeries but doctors have been unable to remove the bullet from her brain. A medical report signed by Dr. Enemosah Ibrahim dated June 15, 2012, states, “CT brain scan revealed fracture of right temporoparietal bone, cerebral edema, intracerebral right temporal lobe bleeding and bullet tract from the posterior right parietal to the front lobe.”
Ali’s brother, Adamu, said the only option was for her to be taken abroad for brain surgery. He said the family had spent over N1m and a bill of about N1.5m was still outstanding.He said, “The pharmacy has stopped giving her drugs, because we have not settled the outstanding bill and the police have not assisted us in any way. “We spoke to the Police Public Relations Officer, Niger State Police Command, Richard Oguche, who said that the policeman that fired the shot had been dismissed from service and that he doesn’t have money to assist us.” He explained that the Niger State Government which directed the state’s Hospital Management Board to foot Ali’s medical bills had also reneged on its promise.
Adamu said the Permanent Secretary in charge of the board, Dr. Ibrahim Tiffin, had not given the family any money and had stopped answering their calls. He said, “Our discussions with Niger State Police Public Relation Officer was fruitless, not even a police representative came to the hospital to sympathise with the family or even to see the extent of damages done to her brain.“Worse still, the police and Niger State Government through the Permanent Secretary, state Hospital Management Board, Dr. Ibrahim Tiffin, have failed to live up to their financial obligation towards the victim and her family.” On his next line of action, Adamu said he would seek the assistance of the Legal Aid Council to get the police to help the family.
When contacted, Oguche said he was no longer the Public Relations Officer of the command and would not comment on the matter. Also, Tiffin could not be reached on Sunday as several calls placed to his two phone lines failed to connect.The Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Frank Mba, however promised to get across to the Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command, to find about the case.

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Pastor Tunde Bakare summoned by police over GEJ preaching

Men of the State Intelligence Bureau of the Nigeria Police have extended invitation to fiery Lagos preacher, Pastor Tunde Bakare, over what police sources see as a controversial sermon against President Goodluck Jonathan.

The invitation is sequel to a sermon which he (Pastor Bakare) delivered in his church wherein he accused President Jonathan of deliberately trying to bankrupt the country.


Publicity secretary of the Save Nigeria Group, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, who confirmed the development in a chat with LEADERSHIP on telephone, however, said Bakare, the leader of the group, was aware of the summon.

Bakare, the running mate to the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, in the last general election was billed to honour the invitation but had left the country on Wednesday.
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“We saw an invitation by the police asking Pastor Bakare to honour an invitation regarding a sermon that he delivered sometime ago, but, as I am talking to you now, he is out of the country,” Odumakin said.
Though, it was speculated that security agents might prevent him from making the journey, which many believe was to the United States of America, he made without it hindrance.

Excerpt of Pastor Bakare’s Sermon
“We have vampires whose assignment is to kill Nigeria and to make sure that Nigeria does not exist thereafter. Suddenly Nigeria that was that cheered now has clueless, shoeless people take over the administration of Nigeria.

“And the one word I have for Nigerians is, don’t despair. Jonathan is dancing to the drumbeat of destiny. His destiny is to bankrupt Nigeria. All men of goodwill must rise up to stop him. And stop him we will do. And I said stop him we will do. Don’t make mistake about what you are hearing from me today, it is clear in my heart beyond any iota of doubt that Jonathan’s destiny is to bankrupt Nigeria, balkanize Nigeria.

And there are forces behind him totally committed and determined to do so. Oil vultures with petrol dollars and all kinds of political “tinkers” not thinkers are tinkering with the destiny of our nation with their palace prophets telling them peace when there is no peace.

I want to tell you that it does not matter what it takes, we will stop you. We will stop you dead in your tracks. You will not accomplish your assignment. You will not finish your assignment. Nigeria will vomit you in the name of Jesus Christ.

Turn your Bible with me to the Book of Chronicles. Tell it on the mountain top that this man is dancing the drumbeat of destiny.

His destiny is to bankrupt this nation and balkanize it and he has the full support of his corporate cowboys and oil vultures as well as their palace prophets who are telling them peace when there is no peace because I don’t understand how a nation will be going through calamity upon calamity and those who should be concerned will only be prancing around. I don’t understand it. I don’t understand how you can serve your nation and serve bomb blast inside a church in Jos for breakfast.

And before they could recover from that anguish you serve them air crash for lunch. And before they could gain their moment of sanity, you serve them with petro dollar bribe and now you vaunt about it telling us nothing can happen because you are in charge, the land will vomit you as the Lord lives in the name of Jesus Christ and every collaborator will not go unpunished.

Your year of punishment has come. Tell it on the mountain top that there are still men of goodwill who will stop you dead in your tracks.

I am not talking about deluded ambitious politicians who now think of 2015 when the nation is in a mess in 2012. We can do all the tinkering, if we don’t rise up now there will not be 2015.”

Source: Leadership