{"id":119176,"date":"2019-05-21T08:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=119176"},"modified":"2019-05-21T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:29:31","slug":"rivers-governor-dethrones-top-monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=119176","title":{"rendered":"Rivers governor dethrones top monarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/May-Day-Wike-lifts-ban-on-promotion-of-civil-servants.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has approved the immediate withdrawal of Certificate of Recognition and staff of office from His Royal Majesty, Chief Frank Noryaa, Gbenemene Baabe.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known yesterday in a statement by Simeon Nwakaudu, Special Assistant to the Governor on Electronic Media.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the withdrawal of government\u2019s recognition from HRM Noryaa followed his alleged indictment on cult-related activities within his kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe traditional ruler was also indicted for harbouring cultists, leading to insecurity in the area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement quoted Governor Wike as saying his \u201cadministration remained committed to the promotion of peace and security across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also the governor warned other traditional rulers and government functionaries against being indicted for promoting insecurity, saying they will face the full weight of the law.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has approved the immediate withdrawal of Certificate of Recognition and staff of office from His Royal Majesty, Chief Frank Noryaa, Gbenemene Baabe. This was made known yesterday in a statement by Simeon Nwakaudu, Special Assistant to the Governor on Electronic Media. According to the statement, the withdrawal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112939,"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":[3,4],"tags":[5091,642,7281],"class_list":["post-119176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-nyesom-wike","tag-rivers","tag-rotimi-amaechi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119176","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=119176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}