{"id":120319,"date":"2019-05-24T17:36:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=120319"},"modified":"2019-05-24T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:37:21","slug":"herdsmen-radio-ohanaeze-blasts-fg-asks-buhari-to-do-same-for-ipob-boko-haram-shiites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=120319","title":{"rendered":"Herdsmen radio: Ohanaeze blasts FG, asks Buhari to do same for IPOB, Boko Haram, Shiites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APC-vs-PDP-Real-reason-Igbos-voted-for-Sanwo-Olu-in-Lagos-Ohanaeze.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has challenged the federal government to tell Nigerians the truth about the proposed set up of a radio station for Fulani herdsmen, and why other radio stations in the country cannot meet the same objective.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman of the group, Mazi Chuks Ibegbu, in a statement forwarded to DAILY POST on Friday, warned the Federal government to stop any negative tendencies that could raise suspicion or further divide the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ibegbu claimed that the establishment of radio stations has nothing to do with killings and kidnappings by armed Fulani herdsmen.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe Federal government should also open a Radio station for the pro-Biafra movements, Boko Haram, Shiites and other agitating groups in Nigeria, even for criminals that make life brutish for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ohanaeze spokesman also berated the Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State for weeping over the killings in his state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the same Governor Masari that has been fighting against the restructuring of Nigeria, a step that will help to end the insecurity in the north.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reported that the federal government had confirmed the acquisition of an Amplitude Modulation Radio broadcast licence, to reach herdsmen across various locations in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, who stated this in Abuja during an interview with newsmen, said the establishment of the radio frequency was to end the perennial farmers-herders clashes across the country.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has challenged the federal government to tell Nigerians the truth about the proposed set up of a radio station for Fulani herdsmen, and why other radio stations in the country cannot meet the same objective. The spokesman of the group, Mazi Chuks Ibegbu, in a statement forwarded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106962,"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],"tags":[41,144,715],"class_list":["post-120319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-herdsmen","tag-ohanaeze-ndigbo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120319","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=120319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}