{"id":112430,"date":"2019-04-30T18:11:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112430"},"modified":"2019-04-30T18:27:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T17:27:59","slug":"reps-to-investigate-death-of-boys-brigade-in-gombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112430","title":{"rendered":"Reps to investigate death of boys brigade in Gombe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The House of Representatives on Tuesday, resolved to investigate the death of boys brigade children during Easter procession in Gombe.<\/p>\n

This follows a motion under matters of urgent national importance by Rep. Aishatu Dukku (APC-Gombe), at plenary.<\/p>\n

Moving the motion, Dukku expressed concern over the unfortunate incident that occurred on Sunday, April 21, 2019, leading to the death of innocent children during boys\u2019 brigade procession in Gombe.<\/p>\n

The lawmaker explained that the boys were in a procession celebrating Easter in Gombe metropolis, when a car rammed into them, killing 11 and injuring many others.<\/p>\n

She maintained that the driver had a heated argument with the children before they made way for him to pass, only for him, in a fit of rage, to turn and drove into them.<\/p>\n

Dukku expressed worry that the driver was later identified as an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).<\/p>\n

She added that an eyewitness report indicated that the NSCDC official was drunk and went into the procession on purpose.<\/p>\n

The motion was unanimously adopted by members when it was put to a voice vote by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara.<\/p>\n

The House, therefore, urged its Committee on Internal Affairs to investigate the matter, make appropriate recommendations and report back in two weeks.<\/p>\n

It also resolved to extend condolence message to the government and people of Gombe state.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the house observed one-minute silence for the souls of the deceased children.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The House of Representatives on Tuesday, resolved to investigate the death of boys brigade children during Easter procession in Gombe. This follows a motion under matters of urgent national importance by Rep. Aishatu Dukku (APC-Gombe), at plenary. Moving the motion, Dukku expressed concern over the unfortunate incident that occurred on Sunday, April 21, 2019, leading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106316,"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":[],"class_list":["post-112430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112430","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=112430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}