Welcome, TAJUDEEN OLADIMEJI, to the NITI Exam Hall

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Please identify yourself and do a translation of the two texts below.
You have a maximum of 6 hours beginning from now.
Good luck.

SOURCE TEXT 1

_WHO GAVE ADAMAWA ROBBERS
POLICE WEAPONS?

_For long, residents of Yola, the Adamawa State capital, had been wondering what had suddenly gone wrong, considering the upsurge in armed robbery operations and the resultant high rate of casualties. It would be recalled that, some days ago, a robbery took place at the NNPC mega station along Yola Road at about 7.30pm when the sale of kerosene was in progress. The robbers struck when two of the three cops guarding the station, a constable, a corporal and an inspector, left their duty post for undisclosed reasons, leaving their AK47 rifles with the constable.

While the inspector left his rifle with the corporal and did not say where he was going, the corporal too, shortly after, left both his rifle and that of the inspector with the constable and said that he was going to buy ‘pure water’.

Few seconds after he left, a gang of seven men appeared and immediately pounced on the hapless constable, shooting him on the head and buttocks. They carted away the rifles in his possession and the proceeds of the kerosene sales, shooting sporadically into the air in their flight.

Since the incident, residents have continued to insinuate that there could be cause to suspect connivance with the robbers because, very often, the men of the underworld seem to appear from nowhere and, their deed done, simply vanish into thin air.

This suspicion has now found some element of confirmation with the recent arrest of a retired senior police officer and eleven other persons who, according to police sources, were involved in large scale burglary of arms and ammunition from the armoury of the police headquarters at Yola.

Sunday Trust learnt that the said retired police officer was known to provide weapons to the bandits at the rate of two hundred thousand naira per operation. Besides, one of the arrested persons, a constable, was said to own five cars, including a 2010 model of Toyota Corolla.

The police are said leaving no stone unturned in their investigation and have promised to make full disclosure of their findings.

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SOURCE TEXT 2

_‘Now you can see what has happened to me’, says Halima, the pregnant widow of an immigration officer who lost his life during the attack by Boko Haram in Damaturu last week. She adds, ‘My husband gave his life to the service of Nigeria but he is now gone. They have killed him and I am really confused’.

The killings in Maiduguri and other parts of the north-east and then Abuja have taken their toll on hundreds of families of soldiers, policemen, immigration officials and men of other paramilitary outfits as well as civilians. Families of clerics, village and ward heads as well as Boko Haram members who lost their lives are now recounting their predicament.

Sunday Trust had, in January, interviewed several families of deceased security operatives. Up till now, many of such families are still traumatized even as they continue to moan over the difficulties associated with obtaining the entitlements of their late bread winners.

A recent attempt to see the bereaved families of some policemen was rebuffed by a senior officer who said: ‘For now, we cannot not grant you access to the families of our officers and men who were killed’. The few families who accepted to talk to our reporters spoke of the harrowing anguish they had been going through and wondered when they would be able to pick up their lives again.  One widow, Marilyn S., who husband was killed in January, was seen selling fruits at the Baga market. She explained her decision: ‘I cannot go back home. I shall remain in Maiduguri so that the children can attend a modest school and at least have some hope for the future’.