{"id":133402,"date":"2019-07-06T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133402"},"modified":"2019-07-06T15:31:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T14:31:37","slug":"benue-northern-govs-react-to-fresh-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133402","title":{"rendered":"Benue: Northern govs react to fresh killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gov.-Lalong-speaks-on-Buhari-imposing-Ruga-in-states.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Northern Governors\u2019 Forum has condemned the killing of 25 people in Agatu, Benue.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were killed at a Church service at Okokolo village of Agatu Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The forum in a statement by its Chairman, Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau, described the killings as a heinous crime that must not go unpunished.<\/p>\n<p>The forum expressed regret that the incident occurred when relative peace had returned to the state.<\/p>\n<p>The northern governors also commiserated with the Government and people of Benue over the petroleum tanker explosion in Ahumbe village along the ever busy Makurdi-Aliade-Otukpo road of Gwer West Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy occurred on Monday, during which 50 people were killed while 100 others were injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe northern governors are deeply saddened by the two ugly incidents and prayed for the repose of the souls of the victims,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The forum urged Gov. Samuel Ortom to rise above the tragedies and provide the leadership that brings hope to the people of the state.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Governors\u2019 Forum has condemned the killing of 25 people in Agatu, Benue. The victims were killed at a Church service at Okokolo village of Agatu Local Government Area of the state. The forum in a statement by its Chairman, Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau, described the killings as a heinous crime that must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131897,"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":[3773,1,3],"tags":[30,4866,7175,1814],"class_list":["post-133402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-arewa","tag-crime","tag-killing","tag-makurdi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133402","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=133402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}