{"id":150947,"date":"2019-09-10T08:09:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T07:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150947"},"modified":"2019-09-10T08:11:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T07:11:28","slug":"igp-receives-strong-message-over-alleged-killing-of-musician-in-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150947","title":{"rendered":"IGP receives strong message over alleged killing of musician in police station"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has been urged to probe the alleged extra-judicial killing of an upcoming artiste, Chinedu Obi, at Sango Police Station in Ogun State.<\/p>\n

A statement on behalf of Obi\u2019s family by rights group, Conference for the Actualisation of Human Rights (CAHR), gave the police a seven-day ultimatum to start investigating the matter.<\/p>\n

The statement signed by the group\u2019s national coordinator and secretary, Omemiroro Ogedegbe Esq. and Comrade Ozobo Austin, respectively, said: \u201cthe deceased had travelled to Otta on July 19 in a bid to advance his music career.<\/p>\n

\u201cObi died following a confrontation with policemen at the station.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil his death, Chinedu Obi, from Utagba Ogbe, Ndokwa West council area of Delta State, was a final year student of the Department of Physics, University of Port Harcourt, Choba in Rivers State.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has been urged to probe the alleged extra-judicial killing of an upcoming artiste, Chinedu Obi, at Sango Police Station in Ogun State. A statement on behalf of Obi\u2019s family by rights group, Conference for the Actualisation of Human Rights (CAHR), gave the police a seven-day ultimatum to start investigating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150948,"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":[4866,4477,9363,2176,9662,9492],"class_list":["post-150947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-crime","tag-igp","tag-igp-idris","tag-nigerian-police-force","tag-ogun-state","tag-police-force"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150947","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=150947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}