{"id":113598,"date":"2019-05-04T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T07:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=113598"},"modified":"2019-05-04T08:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T07:59:43","slug":"gov-al-makura-speaks-on-fresh-attacks-in-nasarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=113598","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Al-Makura speaks on fresh attacks in Nasarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has condemned the latest attacks on three communities in the state.<\/p>\n

Al-Makura made the condemnation on Friday in Lafia at the installation of retired Justice Sidi Bage-Abubakar I as the 17th Emir of Lafia, NAN reports.<\/p>\n

North Central Nigeria, the food basket of the nation, has witnessed relentless attacks that have left hundreds dead and displaced thousands of people.<\/p>\n

The attacked communities are: Panda in Karu, Igah in Nassarawa-Eggon and Andaha in Akwanga Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n

According to the governor, the government has directed heads of security agencies in the state to fish out the perpetrators of the attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe perpetrators of these attacks cannot go unpunished. The government will do everything possible to ensure that we bring them to book.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe perpetrators will not escape justice no matter how highly placed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government is committed to ensuring peace. Therefore, we cannot allow anybody to sabotage our efforts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The governor further stated that the government had deployed security operatives to the troubled areas to forestall further breakdown of law and order.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that attacks in the three communities have claimed many lives with property worth millions of naira destroyed from March to this month.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has condemned the latest attacks on three communities in the state. Al-Makura made the condemnation on Friday in Lafia at the installation of retired Justice Sidi Bage-Abubakar I as the 17th Emir of Lafia, NAN reports. North Central Nigeria, the food basket of the nation, has witnessed relentless attacks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107835,"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-113598","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\/113598","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=113598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}