October 2018 ~ infoNaija

A grandmother was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday after her 20-month-old granddaughter was found stabbed and burned inside an oven.

Bolivar County Sheriff Kelvin Williams identified the Mississippi woman as 48-year-old Carolyn Jones. Earlier, Williams told reporters that Jones had been taken in for questioning after the girl was found dead at a home in the Mississippi Delta town of Shaw in the US on Monday night.

“I’ve been doing law enforcement for 25 or 26 years now,” Williams said. “This is one of the most horrible things I’ve seen in doing law enforcement. The hardest part … is to see a child victim.”

Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said officials are still investigating the cause of the girl’s death and whether she died before she was placed in the oven.

Her body has been sent to the state Crime Lab in Pearl for an autopsy. Williams said autopsy results were not yet complete Tuesday afternoon.

Williams said Jones’s brother found the body Monday night and called police in Shaw, a tow of about 2,000 people approximately 100 miles northwest of Jackson. Police in turn called the sheriff’s office and others for assistance.

Williams said Jones was living in the house where the girl was found and no one else was there at the time the murder took place.

Authorities were less clear on what led up to the death.

The child was found inside a beige frame house in the north end of Shaw. Police tape still surrounded part of the house Tuesday morning, while a stroller, a high chair, and a trash barrel of toys including a scooter sat near the curb in front of the house. Williams said those toys had belonged to the child.

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PORT HAR-COURT— Senator Magnus Abe has dared the Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, stating that the battle for who remains the candidate of the party for the 2019 governorship election in the state has just begun.

Abe, who also emerged the candidate of the party in a direct primary conducted in the state by the Peter Odike-led APC, also rejected the adoption of Mr Tonye Cole as the governorship candidate of the APC by the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party.

Abe spoke in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, weekend, following Cole’s adoption based on the report of the Governorship Primaries Committee that supervised the indirect process in the state.

Senator Magnus Abe and Transport Minister, Chibuike Amaechi

Abe said: “I am sure you are all aware of the current decision of the NWC of our party which accepted the report that returned Tonye Cole elected, based on the indirect primary conducted in the state.

“The battle has just begun. The party has set up an appeal. We will take advantage of the appeal panel and forward our case.

“The result of the indirect primary remains unacceptable and will remain unacceptable. The indirect primary was a charade set up by a few individuals to bring in their candidate. We will not accept that result.

“We are now faced with a fact that a man who just joined the party can claim to be a candidate of the party. This is against the wish of everybody who has worked for the party.

“I don’t have anything against Tonye Cole because he is my friend. But we are politicians and we are fighting for justice. Without truth there can be no justice and without justice there can be no peace.”

Abe further stated that he would not accept the result of the indirect primaries conducted in the state because he and other leaders of the party did not participate in the process.

“This is the situation we have talked and warned about, when the Minister of Transportation called a meeting of the party and started the event that has resulted to this.”

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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/10/battle-has-just-begun-abe-dares-amaechi/