{"id":323197,"date":"2021-03-05T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=323197"},"modified":"2021-03-05T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:14:42","slug":"insecurity-some-governors-want-anarchy-acf-backs-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=323197","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity: Some governors want anarchy &#8211; ACF backs Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has backed President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s directive to security agents to shot any unauthorized person carrying an AK-47 rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari gave the directive as a measure to curb the activities of banditry and terrorism in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The President had ordered security agents to go into the bushes and shoot whoever they see with weapons like AK-47.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, ACF\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Yawe commended Buhari for the directive.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Yawe said: \u201cThough only lawyers can interpret the legality of the President\u2019s order, that the President ordered people to be shot without trial is a legal issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we agree that there is a need for the extreme measure to curb the spread of arms like AK-47.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome governors are even arguing that people should be allowed to carry AK-47 and that is not right. They want the country to dissolve into anarchy. It is not right for private individuals to carry AK-47, which is known all over the world as a very dangerous assault rifle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria is not at war, so why should people carry AK47 freely? Even Dane guns, you need a licence to own it. In Nigeria, people just carry AK-47 freely and they kill people and nothing happens to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ACF welcomes the President\u2019s order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lately, gun-wielding bandits have been on the prowl in the Northern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Schools in Zamfara, Niger, Katsina States have been the major target of the bandits.<\/p>\n<p>Several students have been abducted and later released after some form of negotiations between the bandits and affected state governments.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has backed President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s directive to security agents to shot any unauthorized person carrying an AK-47 rifle. Buhari gave the directive as a measure to curb the activities of banditry and terrorism in the country. The President had ordered security agents to go into the bushes and shoot whoever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323198,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,258,8404,41],"class_list":["post-323197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-ak-47","tag-bandit","tag-buhari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323197","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=323197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}