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Nigeria Police Places ₦20m Bounty On Wanted Briton, Suspect Says 'I'm Ready For A Talk' ~ OsazuwaAkonedo
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9/4/2024
Nigeria Police Places ₦20m Bounty On Wanted Briton, Suspect Says 'I'm Ready For A Talk' ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Abuja #Ahmed #Ajaero #Andrew #Bola #British #Drew #Ehis #EndBadGovernance #EndHunger #Igp #Joe #Lucky #news #NLC #Obiyan #Police #Povey #Povich #Tinubu #Wynne https://osazuwaakonedo.online/nigeria-police-places-%e2%82%a620m-bounty-on-wanted-briton-suspect-says-im-ready-for-a-talk/02/09/2024/ #Nigeria Police Force Published: September 2nd, 2024 Reshared: September 2, 2024 11:58 pm Nigeria Police Force has placed ₦20 million bounty on wanted British
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Nigeria police force has placed Naira's bounty on wanted British citizen Andrew Nguyen just
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as the suspect spoke from United Kingdom in an online interview with Channels Television
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on Monday evening, denying the allegation that he plotted to overthrow Nigeria President
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Bola Ametenebu.
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Nguyen spoke on Monday's edition of Channels Television's Politics Today from his base
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in the United Kingdom.
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He said he was not aware he had been labelled a fugitive.
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But Nguyen declared that he couldn't have been skewing to destabilise the leadership
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of a country that accommodated him for 25 years.
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Saying, He has been visiting Nigeria since 25 years.
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I am not aware that I am a fugitive.
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I am not aware that I am running away from the law.
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I have been visiting Nigeria for 25 years and have had a bookshop in the NLC office
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right in the centre of Abuja for 7 years.
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All that time, of course, the security forces have paid no interest in me.
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I have always had one nationality.
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The name on my passport is Andrew Nguyen and I operate with a nickname.
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I think it really started as differentiating in the sense of the broad political education
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work that I do with the bookshop.
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I am more than happy to talk to the police and have a discussion on WhatsApp or Zoom.
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I am more than happy to go to London and meet with officials from the Nigerian High Commission.
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If they want to start a conversation, then I think that is more than adequate.
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Nguyen's wife, Names Withheld, who also spoke on the programme, distanced her husband
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from the alleged terror act, saying the allegation was deliberately concocted to witch-hunt him.
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Meanwhile, the Nigerian police force has placed a 10 million Naira's bounty on the British
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national, Andrew Nguyen, also known as Andrew Povich or Drew Povich, and Nigerian, lucky
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in his opinion, who were declared wanted over a plot to overthrow President Bolotinibu.
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The force spokesperson, Olumiwa Adejebi on Monday stated that the force has specifically
02:15
launched a comprehensive investigation on how foreign mercenaries and subversive elements
02:20
plotted to overthrow the democratically elected in Nigeria.
02:24
A special police-gazette bulletin shared with journalists at force headquarters, the force
02:30
accused the suspects of terrorism financing, treasonable felony, cybercrime, subversion
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and criminal conspiracy.
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If seen, arrest and hand over to the nearest police, or to the office of the Deputy Inspector
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General of Police, Department of Force Intelligence, Force Headquarters, Abuja, or call 08035179870
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or 9133333785 or 9133333786, the bulletin partly reads.
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A reward sum of Naira's 10 million Naira's awaits any persons with information leading
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to the arrest of each of them, Denny Trust reported.
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We reported on Monday that the British citizen, Andrew Nguyen has reacted to the allegation
03:19
made against him by the Nigerian police force that he plotted during the N-Bank governance
03:24
protest to overthrow President Bolotinibu, saying, protest is not a treasonable act hence
03:30
the government should set free all the 10 protesters whom some of them were arraigned
03:34
before Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for terrorism and treasonable felony on Monday.
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According to the letter as reported by Sahara reporters, the Briton who was accused of inciting
03:46
insurrection against President Bolotinibu's government urged the Nigerian government not
03:51
to treat protests as treason.
03:54
Andrew's bookshop, located at the Abuja headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, was
04:01
previously raided and sealed.
04:03
Sahara reporters added that part of the bogus charges against him involved enabling some
04:09
N-Bank governance protesters with the intent to destabilize Nigeria.
04:14
In a statement on the letterhead of his bookshop, Povey wrote, protest is not treason, release
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all the detainees.
04:23
The mass protests over N-Bank governance and N-Honda frightened the government, but
04:28
rather than addressing the people's demands, the government turned to repression.
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Povey further stated, perhaps 40 people were murdered by the police and other security
04:39
forces, thousands were arrested and many still remain in captivity.
04:45
In Abuja, the authorities have attacked the so-called leaders and organizers of the protests.
04:51
Ten people faced ridiculous charges including treason, mutiny and levying war against the
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state.
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The NLC promised a general strike to protect its president, Joe Ajayo, from arrest and
05:05
detention in relation to similar charges.
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Despite the flimsy nature of the evidence against the detainees, the first long years
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in prison unless the trade union movement is prepared to protect them.
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On the 7th of August, the NLC said it, condemns in the strongest terms the human rights violations
05:25
perpetrated by security forces against peaceful protesters.
05:30
The first person to be arrested in this case was Eliojo Opadua.
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He is a former colleague of Joe Ajayo, working for NUEE, the electricians' union, as an organizer
05:42
in Abuja.
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He is also the vice-chair of the NLC in Kugi State.
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He has now been detained for over four weeks with no tangible evidence.
05:54
His family was told that he had received a WhatsApp message from one of the other alleged
05:59
leaders.
06:00
This was after Eliojo had actually been detained.
06:04
The ten detainees have been accused of conspiracy to commit a range of serious crimes.
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However, the many know each other.
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Five of them may have been members of a WhatsApp group set up to organize the protests in Abuja.
06:19
But the other five are unknown to these comrades.
06:23
There may be a few of the flag-waving protesters from Kano who were added to extend the range
06:28
of the organizers to cover the main protests from Sokoto to Maiduguri.
06:33
There appears to be a conflict between the government and the police investigating this
06:37
case.
06:39
The head of the intelligence response team, Ayati, told the detainees' lawyers that he
06:44
would have released them, but that he had orders from above not to set them free.
06:50
So the police have developed what appears to be a ridiculous case involving the owner
06:54
of Ivan Bali Books.
06:56
They are claiming that he goes under the name of Andrew Povich, a Russian-sounding name,
07:02
and that he has now left Nigeria for Russia.
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Neither of these claims are true.
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Yomi, who works for Ivan Bali Books, has, like the other detainees, been treated in
07:14
a terribly inhuman manner.
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He was arrested in front of his wife and three-year-old daughter.
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All their phones were confiscated by the police.
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This was despite appeals from his wife that they needed a phone to get money for food.
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He was then imprisoned illegally and held in chains, beaten and tortured for three days.
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His only involvement was to design flyers for the protests on the instructions of his
07:42
boss.
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The NLC has shown that it has the power to protect its president.
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It now needs to extend this action to protect its other officers, its members, and the general
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public.
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We had reported that the Nigerian government, through the Office of the Inspector General
08:01
of Police, IGP, has alleged that one British national, Andrew Nguyen, made attempt to overthrow
08:07
President Bola Ametilubu following the investigation of some senior staff of the Nigerian Labor
08:12
Congress, NLC.
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Nigeria Police Force on Monday declared the British national identified as Andrew Nguyen
08:20
a.k.a. Andrew Povich or Drew Povich, wanted for allegedly plotting to overthrow the President
08:26
Bola Ametilubu-led government.
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The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Mwewa Adejevi, in a statement said,
08:35
Following extensive intelligence gathering and collaboration with other security agencies,
08:40
nine suspects have been apprehended.
08:43
Who received?
08:44
Substantial financial backing from foreign sources to destabilize the country.
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Preliminary findings suggest the orchestrated and funded violent protests disseminated false
08:55
information and engaged in other unlawful activities to create anarchy and justify their
09:01
illegal plot to overthrow the democratically elected government.
09:06
Investigations have identified a foreign mercenary, Andrew Nguyen, also known as Andrew Povich
09:12
or Drew Povich, a British national, who built a network of sleeper cells to topple the government
09:18
and plunge the nation into chaos.
09:21
He rented a space at Labour House, Abuja, for an Ivor Valley bookshop and established
09:28
Stars of Nations schools as a cover for his subversive activities.
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Documentary evidence and confessions revealed that Andrew Nguyen issued directives, monitored
09:38
progress and provided finance and operational guidance to achieve unconstitutional regime
09:44
change in Nigeria.
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He mobilized and deployed several millions of Naira to his Nigerian collaborators, urging
09:52
them to mobilize the public to violently storm police facilities and military barracks, anticipating
09:58
a bloodbath that would instigate international condemnation of the Nigerian government.
10:04
The police also said the investigation of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has revealed
10:10
the level of involvement of the foreigner as the NLC did not even know the real identity
10:15
of the person also alleged to be as a foreign mercenary occupying their building.
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Force Public Relations Officer, SCP Olumuyo Adejobi, while briefing journalists in Abuja
10:28
on Monday, said Andrew built a network of sleeper cells to topple the government and
10:34
plunge the nation into chaos.
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Similarly, the police declared Loki in his Obi-Wan, who is alleged to be a local coordinator
10:43
for Andrew, wanted, adding that global hunting for them has commenced in connection with
10:48
the investigation.
10:49
According to him, documentary evidence and confessions revealed that Andrew Nguyen issued
10:55
directives, monitored progress and provided finance and operational guidance to achieve
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unconstitutional regime change in Nigeria.
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Since the commencement of investigations, Andrew Nguyen has fled the country.
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He and one of his local coordinators, one Loki in his Obi-Wan, have accordingly been
11:16
declared wanted and global hunting for them has commenced in connection with this investigation.
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Andrew Nguyen said in a statement that he will continue to work with the police, and
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that he will continue to work with the police to find out what is going on in the country.
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He said that he will continue to work with the police to find out what is going on in
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the country.
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He said that he will continue to work with the police to find out what is going on in
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the country.
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We've been together for nine years, maybe eight years of friendship, and we got legally
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married last year.
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My husband is falsely accused.
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He's never been a terrorist.
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He's being accused because one Mr. Olumide Inok Nguyen is owing him and not ready to
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pay him.
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And the case is in court even now.
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So he's just doing everything he can to intimidate and throw him out of the country.
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He's in UK.
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Because he came in and at the expiring date of his going back, he had to go back.
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If not for all the struggles in, this is September, so by right he's supposed to be back maybe
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around 20-something of September.
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