{"id":19843,"date":"2019-08-05T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T10:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=19843"},"modified":"2019-08-05T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T10:04:50","slug":"umahi-fumes-over-killing-of-another-nigerian-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=19843","title":{"rendered":"Umahi fumes over killing of another Nigerian in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has condemned the murder of Mr Benjamin Simeon, a citizen of the state in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A statement by Mr Sunny-Wenike Dougla, Spokesman Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa, said the 43-year-old Simeon until his death was a Taxify driver.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim was said to have been killed after dropping off his clients in a part of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Douglas added that an investigating officer with the South Africa Police Service confirmed that a case of murder had been opened on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He vowed that his association would follow up with the case to ensure that the killers were arrested and brought to justice.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Umahi who reacted in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Emmanuel Uzor, also urged the South African High Commissioner in Nigeria, to \u201cprobe the circumstances surrounding the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He described the act as gruesome and cruel, noting that Simeon hailed from Okposi in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The govvernor called for full investigation into the killing which occurred at Verona Street, Johannesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The killing happened two weeks after a Nigerian teenager suffered a similar fate in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has condemned the murder of Mr Benjamin Simeon, a citizen of the state in South Africa. A statement by Mr Sunny-Wenike Dougla, Spokesman Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa, said the 43-year-old Simeon until his death was a Taxify driver. The victim was said to have been killed after dropping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19843","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\/19843","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=19843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}