{"id":66804,"date":"2018-12-04T08:39:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T07:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=66804"},"modified":"2018-12-04T08:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T07:40:54","slug":"saraki-reacts-to-the-case-of-19-children-drown-in-kwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=66804","title":{"rendered":"Saraki reacts to the case of 19 children drown in Kwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Saraki6-653x365.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has mourned with families of 19 children who got drowned in a boat mishap over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Arewa.ng reports that 19 children drowned in a boat mishap on Saturday in Lafiagi, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State.<\/p>\n<p>It was learnt that the accident happened while the boat was conveying the victims across River Niger for a traditional wedding ceremony in a community in Niger.<\/p>\n<p>The boat, conveying about 22 people mostly children, capsized while crossing the river.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the incident, Saraki condoled with the families of the victims and prayed for the recovery of survivors.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate President, on his Twitter page, wrote: \u201cToday, my prayers go out to all the families affected by yesterday\u2019s boat mishap at the Chewuru Ferry Port in Lafiagi, Kwara State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the community pulls together in the wake of this awful tragedy, I pray for the quick recovery of all the survivors.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has mourned with families of 19 children who got drowned in a boat mishap over the weekend. Arewa.ng reports that 19 children drowned in a boat mishap on Saturday in Lafiagi, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State. It was learnt that the accident happened while the boat was conveying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22492,"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],"tags":[1893,3281],"class_list":["post-66804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kwara","tag-saraki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66804","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=66804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}