{"id":205571,"date":"2020-03-29T20:14:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=205571"},"modified":"2020-03-29T20:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T19:15:52","slug":"explosions-in-south-west-states-were-targeted-bomb-attacks-gani-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=205571","title":{"rendered":"Explosions in South-West states were targeted bomb attacks &#8211; Gani Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams, on Sunday, called on the federal government to investigate the recent explosions in the South-West.<\/p>\n<p>Adams, in his reaction to Saturday\u2019s blasts in Akure, Ondo State capital, said Yorubas believe the incidents were \u201cbombs\u201d not \u201cordinary blasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He expressed sadness that the occurrences were recorded at a time when the authorities and Nigerians were battling the Coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The Yoruba leader disclosed that information at his disposal suggests that those behind the \u201cbomb blasts\u201d were also targeting other states in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not convinced that all these are ordinary blasts, they were bombs. Governors and residents should be more vigilant, he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is necessary for the federal government to carry out a thorough investigation on these incidents which occurred within three weeks in Lagos, Ekiti and Ondo States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the Lagos blast, Adams observed that from previous instances, pipeline fires usually burn houses \u201cbut never uproots houses from the foundation as was witnessed in Abule Ado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at the scene of the Lagos incident; it was not an ordinary pipeline fire. Also, on the Ondo State incident, we are not satisfied with the explanation and submission of the Commissioner of Police\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Adams further posited that the Ekiti incident was the same pattern and should not be attributed to carelessness or mere blast.<\/p>\n<p>He added that his appeal to the federal government for an immediate diligent probe of the unfortunate trend was to forestall further loss of lives and property.<\/p>\n<p>The Aare Ona Kakanfo, however, commiserated with the affected states, areas and the people.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams, on Sunday, called on the federal government to investigate the recent explosions in the South-West. Adams, in his reaction to Saturday\u2019s blasts in Akure, Ondo State capital, said Yorubas believe the incidents were \u201cbombs\u201d not \u201cordinary blasts.\u201d He expressed sadness that the occurrences were recorded at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205572,"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":[2658,14597],"class_list":["post-205571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-ganiyu-adams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205571","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=205571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}