{"id":383012,"date":"2021-08-11T18:52:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T17:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=383012"},"modified":"2021-08-11T18:55:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T17:55:56","slug":"kidnapping-security-situation-in-edo-relatively-calm-gov-obaseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=383012","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapping: Security situation in Edo relatively calm \u2013 Gov Obaseki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, on Wednesday in Benin, said the security situation in the state was relatively calm, adding that efforts were ongoing to sustain it.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki disclosed this while reviewing Edo security situation for the month of July, following a joint security meeting with all heads of various security agencies in the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to the governor, the reports considered shows that the security environment in the state is relatively calm, amid the incessant kidnappings and armed robberies on Benin-Auchi road.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki said, \u201cQuite a lot of activities had been undertaken to make sure that incessant kidnappings and armed robberies on Benin-Auchi road are handled and brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the month of June, we have seen a considerable reduction in incidents of kidnapping in that axis; we have seen a few more cases in Uromi-Agbor axis and that is being worked on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother issue that was considered was a report on drugs abuse by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working with NDLEA, members of the society, civil society organisations, religious leaders, non-governmental organisations and the press in advocacy so that we can highlight the dangers and bring them under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also received very unfortunate reports about the increase in road accidents. From August 1 alone to date, we have recorded about eight ghastly motor accidents, with about seven deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have directed that further investigations be carried out so that we can reduce the recurrence of situations like that.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, on Wednesday in Benin, said the security situation in the state was relatively calm, adding that efforts were ongoing to sustain it. Obaseki disclosed this while reviewing Edo security situation for the month of July, following a joint security meeting with all heads of various security agencies in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383013,"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":[2658,533,3761],"class_list":["post-383012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-godwin-obaseki","tag-insecurity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383012","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=383012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/383013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}