{"id":155973,"date":"2019-09-28T13:27:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T12:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=155973"},"modified":"2019-09-28T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T12:27:19","slug":"dss-speaks-on-attack-as-operatives-die-on-abuja-kaduna-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=155973","title":{"rendered":"DSS speaks on &#8216;attack&#8217; as operatives die on Abuja-Kaduna road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSS-claims-some-people-are-plotting-to-set-Nigeria-on-fire.jpg\" data-temp-aztec-id=\"a095b025-7dd3-4e4c-ba95-b5cd380bbf7b\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Department of State Services (DSS) has announced that it lost two of its personnel in a fatal car accident Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Afunanya, DSS Public Relations Officer, debunked speculation that they were killed by bandits.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement he signed, he noted that the incident occurred at Gidan Busa Katari, along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team was heading to one of the States in the North-West zone for an operation when the Hilux vehicle in which they were travelling somersaulted\u201d, Afunanya said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo (2) persons died in the accident while another was injured. He is presently receiving required attention in a medical facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis clarification has become necessary in order to debunk fake news making the round that the gallant officers were attacked by bandits,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman appealed to the public to disregard any contrary information.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State Services (DSS) has announced that it lost two of its personnel in a fatal car accident Friday evening. Peter Afunanya, DSS Public Relations Officer, debunked speculation that they were killed by bandits. In a statement he signed, he noted that the incident occurred at Gidan Busa Katari, along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150781,"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":[2658],"class_list":["post-155973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155973","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=155973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}