{"id":142520,"date":"2019-08-10T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T09:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=142520"},"modified":"2019-08-10T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T09:33:55","slug":"el-rufai-reveals-what-will-happen-to-drivers-who-blocked-abuja-kaduna-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=142520","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai reveals what will happen to drivers who blocked Abuja-Kaduna highway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has called for the arrest and prosecution of drivers, who while protesting the killing of their colleague by a policeman for refusing to pay bribe, blocked the expressway.<\/p>\n

AREWA.NG, recalls that many passengers were stranded as drivers blocked the Abuja-Kaduna highway, following a protest.<\/p>\n

The protest came after policemen on duty along the Abuja-Kaduna highway allegedly killed a commercial driver after he refused to give them a N2,000 bribe.<\/p>\n

Reacting via his Twitter handle, El-Rufai expressed disappointment over the incident, writing: \u201cIt is most unfortunate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe drivers will all be arrested and prosecuted for this.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are lawful means of expressing grievances. This is unacceptable!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe State Commissioner of Police is investigating and reporting to our Attorney-General for immediate prosecution of the trigger-happy officer, but the tanker drivers have no right to do what they did, and must pay the price as well.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has called for the arrest and prosecution of drivers, who while protesting the killing of their colleague by a policeman for refusing to pay bribe, blocked the expressway. AREWA.NG, recalls that many passengers were stranded as drivers blocked the Abuja-Kaduna highway, following a protest. The protest came after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133594,"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":[11812,30,4866,7174,11057,12307,7175],"class_list":["post-142520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-abuja-kaduna-highway","tag-arewa","tag-crime","tag-driver","tag-elrufai-2","tag-expressway","tag-killing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142520","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=142520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}