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FCT police arrest corrections officer for shooting fleeing convict
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command said it has arrested an officer of the correctional service identified as Usman Magaji, for shooting one Ibrahim Yahaya, at the Wuse Market in Abuja, on Tuesday, resulting in an outrage in which angry mob burnt shops in the market.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, disclosed this is a statement on Tuesday.
PUNCH Online earlier reported that a section of the popular market after an angry mob and agrrieved traders set the market ablaze, after the victim tried to escape, following a convict
I’ll free US Capitol rioters if reelected, says Trump
Donald Trump on Monday pledged to free people jailed for taking part in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol as one of his first actions if reelected, calling them “hostages
The rioters – egged on by the then-president and fueled by his false claims of voter fraud – stormed the seat of US democracy on January 6, 2021, in a bid to halt the transfer of power to Joe Biden.
Around 1,358 defendants have been charged in the 38 months since then, according to the latest figures from the Justice Department released last week.
About 500 has been sentenced to prison