{"id":192661,"date":"2020-02-10T18:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=192661"},"modified":"2020-02-10T18:22:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:22:55","slug":"biafra-nnamdi-kanu-dares-nigerian-police-over-burial-of-his-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=192661","title":{"rendered":"Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu dares Nigerian Police over burial of his parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has dared the Nigerian Police, to shoot guests at the funeral of his parents on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu stated this during a broadcast on Radio Biafra last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The IPOB leader also hinted that he would not return to Nigeria for the funeral and would be monitoring events from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu was reacting to a statement from the police, in which they vowed to disrupt the burial ceremony, if IPOB members attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of them to be remorseful for causing the death of my father and mother, all they are saying is we will come and shoot at people that attend the burial,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should come and shoot; our CCTV is there live. So that when it starts, they won\u2019t deny it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be relayed live so that when our people\u2019s madness starts, they won\u2019t go back to propaganda and say, \u2018it is secession, they are trying to secede.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kanu has been on the run since 2017, when soldiers raided his father\u2019s residence in Abia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has dared the Nigerian Police, to shoot guests at the funeral of his parents on Friday. Kanu stated this during a broadcast on Radio Biafra last weekend. The IPOB leader also hinted that he would not return to Nigeria for the funeral and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192662,"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":[3773,1,3,4],"tags":[13309,8485,4866,243,518],"class_list":["post-192661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-13309","tag-buhari-politics","tag-crime","tag-nigeria","tag-nnamdi-kanu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192661","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=192661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}