{"id":152464,"date":"2019-09-15T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=152464"},"modified":"2019-09-15T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:26:07","slug":"police-arrest-62-for-violence-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=152464","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 62 for violence in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RevolutionNow-What-armed-policemen-did-to-athletes-in-Kwara.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Sixty-two political thugs were on Saturday arrested during the just concluded APC primaries.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested for allegedly attacking innocent residents.<br \/>\nThe APC conducted its primary elections for aspirants for the positions of Chairmen and councilors for the forthcoming Nov. 30 council polls in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Adamu Usman, the State Commissioner of Police, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Sunday that the suspects were from five local government areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dPaikoro Local Government Area, 44; Rijau Local Government Area, 4; Tafa Local Government Area, 10; Katcha Local Government Area, 2; and Rafi Local Government Area, 2,\u201d the Commissioner said.<br \/>\nHe explained that one Toyota vehicle with dangerous weapons, such as machetes, daggers and knives were recovered from some of the suspects.<br \/>\nThe Commissioner said that the suspects would be charged to court for unlawful assembly, disturbance of public peace, being in possession of dangerous weapons and for sponsoring thuggery in accordance with the Niger State Anti-Thuggery law.<br \/>\nUsman warned politicians, especially those seeking elective positions, against sponsoring political violence during and after the local government elections in the state.<br \/>\nHe said that the command was committed to providing peaceful atmosphere for the conduct of a free, fair and credible elections across the state.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-two political thugs were on Saturday arrested during the just concluded APC primaries. They were arrested for allegedly attacking innocent residents. The APC conducted its primary elections for aspirants for the positions of Chairmen and councilors for the forthcoming Nov. 30 council polls in the state. Alhaji Adamu Usman, the State Commissioner of Police, told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133128,"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":[11480,56,2176,61,9492],"class_list":["post-152464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-nigeria-2","tag-niger","tag-nigerian-police-force","tag-police","tag-police-force"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152464","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=152464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}