{"id":110091,"date":"2019-04-24T00:12:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110091"},"modified":"2019-04-24T00:12:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:12:43","slug":"banditry-brinin-gwari-people-cry-out-to-senate-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110091","title":{"rendered":"Banditry: Brinin Gwari people cry out to Senate for help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Banditry-Brinin-Gwari-people-cry-out-to-Senate-for-help.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Victims worse hit by the rampaging bandits terrorizing communities located along Kaduna-Niger Highway have cried out to the Senate for help.<\/p>\n<p>They called on the Senate to compel security agencies to fish out bad eggs within their midst that give out information to the armed bandits attacking them and other travellers.<br \/>\nThe group, under the aegis of Birnin Gwari Emirate Progressive Union, led by Nadir Khalid its Vice Chairman, made this appeal when they paid a courtesy call on Senator representing Kaduna Central, Distinguished Senator Shehu Sani, at his residence in Kaduna on Tuesday April 23, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformants are giving out information to the bandits. Government should fish out the informants as that would go a long way in checking their activities,\u201d they appealed.<\/p>\n<p>They explained that Birnin Gwari was facing serious security problems, which they itemised in letter and are handing over to Distinguished Senator Shehu Sani whom they described as \u201cthe voice of the voiceless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike I said, our letter includes problems of armed banditry and kidnapping, crippling our economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to look for way, and get vigilante to escort us before we were able to travel to Kaduna. More than 30 associations have delegated chairman and secretary and are present here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demand more troops to work in sincerity. People of Kuriga in Chikun LGA, have migrated to Birnin Gwari. They have received attacks nine times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout people in villages around the road who are been sacked by the bandits, people cannot travel,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>They said that there was the need to strengthen the vigilante, pay them salaries to do this job.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims worse hit by the rampaging bandits terrorizing communities located along Kaduna-Niger Highway have cried out to the Senate for help. They called on the Senate to compel security agencies to fish out bad eggs within their midst that give out information to the armed bandits attacking them and other travellers. The group, under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[297],"class_list":["post-110091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-birnin-gwari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}