{"id":61594,"date":"2018-11-15T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=61594"},"modified":"2018-11-15T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:37:22","slug":"police-speaks-on-using-helicopter-to-convey-money-for-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=61594","title":{"rendered":"Police speaks on using helicopter to convey money for election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nigeria Police Force has denied that its helicopter and vehicle were used to convey cash.<\/p>\n

Some social media reports had alleged that a helicopter belonging to the force landed at St. Paul Primary School, Omuaran, Kwara to off-load cash into a vehicle belonging to Mr Tunji Ajuloopin, the APC candidate for the Nov. 17 by-election in the state.<\/p>\n

A statement by the force spokesman, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood on Thursday in Abuja, said the helicopters were deployed for surveillance and airlift of officers in the Saturday Ekiti\/Irepodun\/Oke-Federal Constituency by-election.<\/p>\n

He implored the public and the media to disregard and discountenance the publication.<\/p>\n

Moshood said that the police helicopter and vehicle in the picture being circulated were not used to convey any cash and the vehicle does not belong to Ajuloopin as claimed.<\/p>\n

He emphasized that the helicopters were deployed for surveillance patrols and support services to ensure secure environment during the by-election.<\/p>\n

The spokesman urged the public to discountenance the report which he described as a deliberate blackmail to misinform the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe renewed commitment of the Nigeria Police Force to ensure adequate security for a free, fair and credible election in the country remains unwavering,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigeria Police Force has denied that its helicopter and vehicle were used to convey cash. Some social media reports had alleged that a helicopter belonging to the force landed at St. Paul Primary School, Omuaran, Kwara to off-load cash into a vehicle belonging to Mr Tunji Ajuloopin, the APC candidate for the Nov. 17 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9586,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4149,2176,5484],"class_list":["post-61594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2019-election","tag-nigerian-police-force","tag-politic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61594","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=61594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}