{"id":65228,"date":"2018-11-28T16:58:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=65228"},"modified":"2018-11-28T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:58:32","slug":"police-dismiss-sergent-over-alleged-killing-of-undergraduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=65228","title":{"rendered":"Police dismiss Sergent over alleged killing of undergraduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Nigeria-Police-Force.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Bayelsa State Police Command has dismissed a police Sergeant who allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old undergraduate, Tariela Nikadae, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that the incident happened during a police raid and detention of residents by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Command.<\/p>\n<p>The detained residents were later screened and freed by the police following intervention by their relatives.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking on the incident on Wednesday, the spokesman for the Command, Asinim Butswa told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the sergeant would soon be arraigned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bayelsa State Police Command regrets the unfortunate incident involving a police officer and a resident of Tenacious Road, Edepie, Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSgt. Timadi Emmanuel attached to a patrol team of Akenfa Division, while on patrol at Tenacious Road, Edepie, under questionable circumstances shot one Tariela Nikade, male, aged 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe policeman has been dismissed after preliminary investigations into the incident and he will be prosecuted as soon as investigations are concluded,\u201d Butswat said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bayelsa State Police Command has dismissed a police Sergeant who allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old undergraduate, Tariela Nikadae, on Friday. NAN reports that the incident happened during a police raid and detention of residents by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Command. The detained residents were later screened and freed by the police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9960,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[1154,8239],"class_list":["post-65228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-bayelsa","tag-niger-delta-university"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65228","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=65228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}