{"id":143118,"date":"2019-08-12T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=143118"},"modified":"2019-08-12T21:19:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:19:58","slug":"police-vs-army-pdp-govs-react-angrily-to-soldiers-killing-of-irt-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=143118","title":{"rendered":"Police vs Army: PDP govs react angrily to soldiers’ killing of IRT officers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors have called on the Federal Government to prosecute soldiers who killed three policemen and two civilians in Taraba and Abia States.<\/p>\n

PDP Governors\u2019 Forum, in a statement on Monday by its Chairman, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, also called for adequate compensation of the families of victims.<\/p>\n

A statement Dickson signed, said senseless killings \u201chave in recent times, taken another gruesome dimension,\u201d noting that this was not only wicked and malicious but unprofessional and cowardly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is totally unacceptable to the people of this country. We wish to reiterate that the killings are unnecessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very pathetic that the Nigerian Army would abandon their constitutional role of defending the borders of the country from external aggression to descend into such lowly criminality.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is sad that a security personnel, who is paid and maintained with tax-payers\u2019 money, could turn around to kill the person he was paid to protect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019The forum calls on the federal government to redress the situation immediately, as this portrays signs of inefficiency and irresponsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe implore the federal government to adequately compensate the families of victims and ensure justice is served on the culprits,\u201d the forum added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has ordered travelling officers and men to wear plain clothes [mufti] while travelling across Nigeria.<\/p>\n

This was contained in a circular with reference number: AHQDAIOPS\/G3\/240\/232, and copied to Army formations nationwide.<\/p>\n

The letter signed by Brig. Gen. F. Omoigui, on behalf of the COAS, was entitled: \u201cNeed for troops to be circumspect in dealing with members of the Nigeria Police.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buratai directed soldiers on internal security (IS) operations across the country to be circumspect, alerting of the likelihood of aggression towards troops by police personnel.<\/p>\n

He said Police statements and reactions had the potential of forcing the rank and file of its personnel to \u201cexhibit aggressive tendencies against NA (Nigerian Army) personnel.\u201d.<\/p>\n

Buratai, in the circular, told soldiers to travel in mufti to avoid possible attacks by policemen, which he argued, may be occasioned by the Police\u2019s comments on both social and traditional media.<\/p>\n

Soldiers of the 93 Battalion had shot dead the IRT operatives \u2013 Inspector Mark Ediale, Sergeant Usman Danzumi, and Sergeant Dahiru Musa.<\/p>\n

The Army claimed they were shot after being mistaken for \u201csuspected kidnappers\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors have called on the Federal Government to prosecute soldiers who killed three policemen and two civilians in Taraba and Abia States. PDP Governors\u2019 Forum, in a statement on Monday by its Chairman, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, also called for adequate compensation of the families of victims. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143119,"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":[3773,1,3,4],"tags":[11480,12962,5115,4866,5633,58,61,62],"class_list":["post-143118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-nigeria-2","tag-93-battalion","tag-army","tag-crime","tag-killings","tag-pdp","tag-police","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143118","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=143118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}