{"id":137556,"date":"2019-07-23T05:41:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T04:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=137556"},"modified":"2019-07-23T05:41:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T04:41:39","slug":"police-speak-on-clash-with-shittes-in-abuja-caution-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=137556","title":{"rendered":"Police speak on clash with Shittes in Abuja, caution residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nigeria Police has reacted to the clash between members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), also known as Shiites, and security operatives on Monday at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja<\/p>\n

DAILY POST had reported that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) shed\/outpost was set ablaze by Shi\u2019ite members in Abuja.<\/p>\n

This is following the clash between members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) better known as Shiites and security operatives on Monday at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the incident, the force in a statement signed by DCP Frank Mba, Force Public Relations Officer warned Nigerians in Abuja to avoid Central Business District and the Three Arms Zone areas in Abuja.<\/p>\n

Mba assured that the situation was under control as adequate measures were being put in place.<\/p>\n

The statement read: \u201cPUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT There is a violent protest currently ongoing by members of the El-Zakzakky Group in some parts of the FCT \u2013 particularly the Central Business District and the Three Arms Zone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Police are taking adequate measures to bring the situation under control.<\/p>\n

\u201cCitizens are advised to remain calm and avoid the affected areas in the interim. The Police will keep the public abreast with further development.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigeria Police has reacted to the clash between members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), also known as Shiites, and security operatives on Monday at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja DAILY POST had reported that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) shed\/outpost was set ablaze by Shi\u2019ite members in Abuja. This is following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128493,"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":[1,3],"tags":[574,61,583,12816],"class_list":["post-137556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-imn","tag-police","tag-shiites","tag-zakzaky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137556","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=137556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}