{"id":161173,"date":"2019-10-18T07:44:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T06:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161173"},"modified":"2019-10-18T07:46:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T06:46:34","slug":"onitsha-tanker-explosion-is-preventable-says-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161173","title":{"rendered":"Onitsha tanker explosion is preventable, says Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\/Onitsha-Tanker-Explosion-Preventable-\u2013Atiku.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President of Nigeria, has described the fire outbreak caused by a tanker explosion in Onitsha, Anambra State, as preventable.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which occurred on Wednesday, killed at least three people and also destroyed properties worth millions of naira.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Twitter on Thursday, Atiku said, \u201cWe&#8217;ve had many preventable fuel tanker tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI received with sadness, report of a tanker explosion in Onitsha, Anambra State, which caused massive destruction to lives and properties in Ochanja Market area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy prayers and thoughts are with the families of the affected persons.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President of Nigeria, has described the fire outbreak caused by a tanker explosion in Onitsha, Anambra State, as preventable. The incident, which occurred on Wednesday, killed at least three people and also destroyed properties worth millions of naira. In a post on Twitter on Thursday, Atiku said, \u201cWe&#8217;ve had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161174,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12445,1048,12153],"class_list":["post-161173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-akeredolu","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-onitsha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161173","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=161173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}