{"id":15498,"date":"2019-02-19T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15498"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:39:12","slug":"el-rufai-ups-the-ante-says-130-actually-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15498","title":{"rendered":"El Rufai ups the ante; says 130 actually died"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state says the death toll as a result of the communal clash in the Kajuru Local Government Area of the state has risen to 130 as against the previous figure of 66.
\nEl-Rufai stated this when he spoke to State House correspondents after briefing a security meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.
\nThe governor had on Friday through his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mr Samuel Aruwan, disclosed that 66 people were killed by unknown attackers in Kajuru Local Government Area.
\nEl-Rufai, who alongside the governors of Borno and Adamawa briefed members of the security committee on security situations in their respective states, frowned at those who questioned the initial casualties\u2019 figures of 66.
\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that several individuals and organisations including the Southern Kaduna People\u2019s Union (SOKAPU) and Human Rights Lawyer, Chidi Odinkalu had expressed doubt over the occurrence of the killings of the 66 persons.
\nHe said: \u201cThe last report we got is that over 130 people were killed not even 66 and the Fulani leaders have provided the names of all these people.
\n\u201dWe have the list, we can release it to the Press and I don\u2019t want to be gross but we can release pictures of the people killed and how soldiers have to be there to help bury them, two days after they were killed because the bodies were decomposing.
\n\u201dWhoever still doubts that this did not happen is being grossly irresponsible.\u2019\u2019
\nThe Ag. Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, who also spoke to the correspondents, said the police were ready to protect eligible Nigerians following resolution at the meeting that adequate security be provided within the country.
\nAdamu said: \u201dToday, members of the security community and intelligence community came and briefed Mr President on the security situation in the country.
\n\u201cWe deliberated on the consequences and came up with the resolve to further provide adequate security within the country so that the electorate will come out and cast their votes without any fear of molestation.
\n\u201cEvery Nigerian is encouraged to come out on the Election Day and cast his or her vote without any fear of molestation,\u201d he said.
\nAccording to him, security personnel are ready and prepared to protect everybody.
\nHe further warned that, \u201canybody that feels that he can come out and disrupt process should have a rethink because that situation will not be allowed.
\n\u201cIf you plan and allow yourself to be used as touts, whatever happens to you, you will take it.
\n\u201cBallot snatching, ballot buying, thuggery will never be allowed, anybody that is planning to snatch ballot boxes or planning to be used as a tout, will have his or herself to blame on the Election Day. So you better don\u2019t allow yourself to be used.”
\nBy NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state says the death toll as a result of the communal clash in the Kajuru Local Government Area of the state has risen to 130 as against the previous figure of 66. El-Rufai stated this when he spoke to State House correspondents after briefing a security meeting which was presided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15498","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\/15498","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=15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}