{"id":14891,"date":"2019-01-30T12:54:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T12:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14891"},"modified":"2019-01-30T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T12:54:33","slug":"viral-video-police-blame-sister-security-agency-for-killing-unarmed-civilian-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14891","title":{"rendered":"Viral Video: Police blame \u2018sister security agency\u2019 for killing unarmed civilian \u2013 Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian police have said that the security officers captured in a\u00a0viral video\u00a0killing an unarmed civilian were from a \u201csister security agency\u201d, and not from the police.<br \/>\nAn amateur video being circulated on Twitter and Facebook shows two armed security officers dragging an unarmed young man through the street, before firing at him at close range.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video shows Nigerian police officers shooting unarmed civilian in Benin City, Edo State\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l4996wXigfQ?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 \/>\nThe man fell down on the floor and appeared to have died instantly.<br \/>\n\u201cIt has been established that the armed men in the viral video are not officers of the @PoliceNG but operatives of a sister security agency,\u201d the police said Tuesday on Twitter through its Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU).<br \/>\nAs a follow-up tweet, the police said, \u201cAll the men rounded up in the video are members of a violent kidnap for ransom syndicate who were tracked down to the said location.\u201d<br \/>\nAnother tweet from the police suggested the incident may have happened in Benin City, Edo State, on Tuesday<br \/>\nThough the police did not mention the \u201csister security agency\u201d involved in the killing, several Twitter users said the police was referring to the State Security Services (SSS).<br \/>\nThe SSS has, however, denied the involvement of its officers in the killing.<br \/>\n\u201cWell, I haven\u2019t seen such video, but it is not DSS. It couldn\u2019t have been, we don\u2019t operate like that,\u201d Peter Afunanya, the spokesperson of the SSS told PREMIUM TIMES, Wednesday morning.<br \/>\n\u201cDSS operates within the law, we are not rascally,\u201d Mr Afunanya said.<br \/>\nBy <strong>Premium Times\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian police have said that the security officers captured in a\u00a0viral video\u00a0killing an unarmed civilian were from a \u201csister security agency\u201d, and not from the police. An amateur video being circulated on Twitter and Facebook shows two armed security officers dragging an unarmed young man through the street, before firing at him at close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14891","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\/14891","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=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}