{"id":157764,"date":"2019-10-05T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T09:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157764"},"modified":"2019-10-05T10:17:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T09:17:14","slug":"niger-angry-mob-lynches-vio-official-for-chasing-three-commercial-motorcycle-riders-to-their-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157764","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Angry mob lynches VIO official for chasing three commercial motorcycle riders to their death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Niger-Angry-Mob-Kills-VIO-Official-For-Chasing-Three-Commercial-Motorcycle-Riders-To-Their-Death.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An angry mob on Thursday killed a Vehicle Inspector Officer identified as Ahmed Bello in the Mariga Local Government Area of the Niger State.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police, Adamu Usman, made the disclosure in Minna, the state capital, on Friday while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Usman said, \u201cOn October 3, at about 13:30 hours, three Fulani youths namely Malami Mohammed, Juli Musa and Dawa Ali, riding on an unregistered motorcycle, were told by the VIO to stop but they refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were chased by the VIO and they ran into a moving trailer with registration No. FKJ 512 XW that was coming from Tegina-Kampani Bobi area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of them were crushed by the trailer and they died on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn realising what he did, the VIO official ran towards Kampani Bobi Police outstation for safety but he was pursued by the irate mob and lynched.\u201d <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An angry mob on Thursday killed a Vehicle Inspector Officer identified as Ahmed Bello in the Mariga Local Government Area of the Niger State. Commissioner of Police, Adamu Usman, made the disclosure in Minna, the state capital, on Friday while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria. Usman said, \u201cOn October 3, at about 13:30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157765,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[5550,5089,12515,11876],"class_list":["post-157764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-abubakar-sani-bello","tag-frsc","tag-niger-state","tag-vio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157764","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=157764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}