{"id":10147,"date":"2018-06-27T22:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10147"},"modified":"2018-06-27T22:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:06:28","slug":"plateau-killings-stf-parades-17-suspects-protesters-in-black-storm-govt-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10147","title":{"rendered":"Plateau Killings: STF parades 17 suspects; protesters in black storm Govt House (Video attached)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong>Ron-Well Jacob<\/strong>, Jos.<br \/>\nThe Special Task Force (STF) known as Operation Safe Haven, keeping the peace on Plateau \u00a0paraded 17 suspects linked to the killings in some villages in Gashish district in Barkin Ladi local government area.<br \/>\nThe parade came as a mammoth crowd wearing black stormed the State&#8217;s Government House in Jos to protest the killings and government&#8217;s handling of the killings which figure has been upped above 210. They had earlier taken over Jos streets pouring invectives on state and federal political office holders.<br \/>\nMany were angry that neither the Stae Governor, Simon Lalong, nor visiting Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and President Muhammadu Buhari thought it necessary to visit communities where citizens were mauled down. Both men began and ended their official trips in Jos.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youth protest  in Jos over the killing in Plateau\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/huqctpPvb1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nSecurity concerns have been cited for this, but protesters were not impressed, insisting &#8220;these State and National chief security officers do not feel safe, with all the soldiers, Police, security agents, and others they have on ground.&#8221; &#8220;That tells you how safe we the ordinary citizens are in this country,&#8221; another chipped in.<br \/>\nThe protest went violent and gunshots were heard around the Government House.<br \/>\nThe crisis which engulfed the some districts of Barkin Ladi on Sunday led to the death of over 200 persons including travelers who were trapped and killed in retaliation along Heipang, Mararaban Foron and Anguldi in Jos south.<br \/>\nAmong the suspects paraded by the Task Force include \u00a0Ahmed and Yahuza who were arrested around Gashish district in Barkin Ladi and one Friday, who was arrested in Belshow village in Barkin Ladi.<br \/>\nMajor Adam Umar, theTask Force Media and Information Officer, said that Ahmed and Yahuza were arrested on Saturday afternoon while Friday was arrested on Sunday evening.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our officers and men, who quickly responded to distress calls were able ot get these three suspects in connection with the crisis.<br \/>\n&#8220;We also got on them four weapons paraded \u00a0which include three locally made and one automatic AK47, &#8221; he disclosed.<br \/>\nAlso paraded were 14 youths \u00a0arrested in connection with the civil disturbances of Sunday afternoon which led to attacks on travellers along Mararaban Jama\u2019a, Mararaban Foron and Anguldi.<br \/>\nUmar said all the suspects were cooperating with security agencies in their investigations.<br \/>\nAccording to him, &#8220;their arrest will definitely assist in leading to the arrest of other accomplices&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe Task Force image maker however warned the general public against involving in any form of crime or social vices so as not to fast the wrath of the law.<br \/>\nHe said that the security operatives were on alert and ever ready to get anyone found breaching the law and infringing on the fragile peace that has been restored in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ron-Well Jacob, Jos. The Special Task Force (STF) known as Operation Safe Haven, keeping the peace on Plateau \u00a0paraded 17 suspects linked to the killings in some villages in Gashish district in Barkin Ladi local government area. The parade came as a mammoth crowd wearing black stormed the State&#8217;s Government House in Jos to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}