{"id":17206,"date":"2019-04-23T19:10:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17206"},"modified":"2019-04-23T19:10:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:10:57","slug":"president-buhari-sad-over-gombe-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17206","title":{"rendered":"President Buhari sad over Gombe killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy\u00a0<strong>Garba Shehu<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity)<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari has expressed deep sadness over reports of the killing of some Christian youths during an Easter procession Sunday night in Gombe, and reprisal killing of the law enforcement officials allegedly responsible for the tragic incident.<br \/>\nDescribing the violent actions as \u201cvery unfortunate,\u201d the President extends condolences to the families of the victims, while wishing the several injured speedy recovery.<br \/>\nJoining the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Gombe State chapter, and the State Government in appealing for calm, President Buhari also decried the reckless driving as well as \u201cquick resort to self-help and mob action.\u201d<br \/>\nAccording to him, \u201cWe must always be mindful of the peaceful action of others while resisting the urge to take the laws into our hands notwithstanding the gravity of provocation.\u201d<br \/>\nThe President commends the leaderships of the police and the National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for steps taken in bringing the situation under control, and promising further investigations into the sad incident.<br \/>\nPresident Buhari prays Almighty God to comfort the bereaved families and grant rest to the souls of the departed victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By\u00a0Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity) President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed deep sadness over reports of the killing of some Christian youths during an Easter procession Sunday night in Gombe, and reprisal killing of the law enforcement officials allegedly responsible for the tragic incident. Describing the violent actions as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17206","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\/17206","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=17206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}