{"id":72650,"date":"2018-12-24T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=72650"},"modified":"2018-12-24T15:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T14:23:34","slug":"killings-shehu-sani-reveals-three-reasons-northern-leaders-are-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=72650","title":{"rendered":"Killings: Shehu Sani reveals three reasons northern leaders are silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shehu-sani.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central, has criticised northern political elite over their silence on frequent killings and kidnappings in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker, in a series of tweets, highighted three reasons why the northern elite are silent over the killings.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the fear of being against the President Muhammadu Buhari government is among the reasons for northern leaders\u2019 silence.<\/p>\n<p>Sani, on his Twitter page, wrote: \u201cNorthern political elites are silent on the frequent killings and kidnappings in the north out of any of these three reasons;FEAR not to be seen opposing the Government;BELIEF that the President is doing his best;INDIFFERENCE because it\u2019s the poor that are dying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, no fewer than 17 people were on Saturday killed by bandits in Magami Village, Faru District of Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central, has criticised northern political elite over their silence on frequent killings and kidnappings in the region. The lawmaker, in a series of tweets, highighted three reasons why the northern elite are silent over the killings. According to him, the fear of being against the President Muhammadu Buhari government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12223,"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":[3,4,2677],"tags":[2658,1524],"class_list":["post-72650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-religious","tag-a","tag-shehu-sani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72650","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=72650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}