{"id":12401,"date":"2018-10-05T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T10:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12401"},"modified":"2018-10-05T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T10:09:19","slug":"200-arrested-as-army-clamps-down-at-jos-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12401","title":{"rendered":"200 arrested as Army clamps down at Jos community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army has begun a clamp down on residents of Dura community over the disappearance of Maj.-Gen. Idris Alkali (rtd).<br \/>\nA resident said over 200 residents, majorly youths, were arrested by men of the 3 Division between Tuesday night and yesterday morning.<br \/>\nHe added that those arrested were tortured to confess or volunteer information that will lead to Gen. Alkali\u2019s killers.<br \/>\nHe said: \u201cAs a matter of fact, the military is already occupying the community, the operation started in the night. We woke in the morning to see soldiers surround the entire community in a way that says everyone is in danger.<br \/>\n\u201cMost of them were stripped naked and flogged inside a military truck. The soldiers came from Maxwell Khobe Cantonment, Rukuba Barrack, Jos.\u201d<br \/>\nLocal sources say dozens of military personnel stormed the remote community at daybreak, arresting anyone in sight including women. The soldiers forced their subjects to surrender and board a military truck wherein they were stripped naked and taken to detention, it was learnt.<br \/>\nDeputy Director, Army Public Relations, 3 Armoured Division Col. Kayode Ogunsanya, who confirmed the invasion, in a text message, said: \u201cThe Army is on a mission to find the missing Maj.-Gen. Idris Alkali (rtd), whose vehicle was discovered in a pond near the community.<br \/>\n\u201cI cannot tell you the number of people arrested, but it is normal that when we conduct such operations, some people will be apprehended. They were screened and sorted out based on their degree of involvement in the crime. The general area of Dura-Du district in Jos South has been cordoned off. The aim is to search for the missing Gen. Alkali (rtd) dead or alive.\u201d<br \/>\nThe military operations in the community has created serious fears in neighbouring communities, with many praying that the state will not get the Odi and Zakibiam experience during Obansanjo\u2019s administration.<br \/>\nBy <strong>Newsdigest.ng<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army has begun a clamp down on residents of Dura community over the disappearance of Maj.-Gen. Idris Alkali (rtd). A resident said over 200 residents, majorly youths, were arrested by men of the 3 Division between Tuesday night and yesterday morning. He added that those arrested were tortured to confess or volunteer information that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12401","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\/12401","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=12401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}