{"id":19963,"date":"2019-08-09T19:41:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=19963"},"modified":"2019-08-09T19:41:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:41:20","slug":"presidents-ordered-probe-underway-as-dhq-sets-up-panel-on-shot-policemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=19963","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s ordered probe underway as DHQ sets up panel on shot policemen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With military dispatch, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has put bite to the orders of its Commander-in-chief that the circumstances that led to the death of three crack Police detectives and a civilian from the guns of soldiers be probed.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the probe after the Police and Army gave conflicting reports on the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army and the Police have been at each other&#8217;s throats over the manner the men were killed and an alleged notorious kidnapper set free by the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-everyday-ng\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VrVG2LMz04\"><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/2019\/08\/09\/police-blasts-army-over-killing-of-three-detectives-civilan\/\">Police blasts Army over killing of three detectives, civilan<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Police blasts Army over killing of three detectives, civilan&#8221; &#8212; Everyday.ng\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/2019\/08\/09\/police-blasts-army-over-killing-of-three-detectives-civilan\/embed\/#?secret=Z6i8RWHJCg#?secret=VrVG2LMz04\" data-secret=\"VrVG2LMz04\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Police statement questioned the integrity of the soldiers, suggesting that its men were shot at point-blank range after they identified themselves. Others were injured and are receiving treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, DHQ spokesman, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu said: &#8220;In compliance with the presidential directive issued by the President, Commander-In- Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, the Chief of Defence Staff Gen Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin has constituted a 7 man Joint Investigation Panel to unravel the circumstances that led to the unfortunate incident between the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police allegedly resulting in the killing of 3 personnel of the Nigeria Police and a civilian along Ibi \u2013 Wukari road in Taraba state.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Joint Investigation panel is headed by Rear Admiral IT Olaiya and has a representative each from the Nigerian Army, Navy, Airforce the Nigeria Police, Department of State Service and the Defence Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Joint Committee has commenced work immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-everyday-ng\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"cB42lkyKl1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/2019\/08\/07\/soldiers-allegedly-kill-police-operatives-release-kidnap-kingpin-another-report-fingers-youths\/\">Police, Army Disagree Over How Soldiers Allegedly  Kill Police Operatives, Release Kidnap Kingpin; Another Report Fingers Youths<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Police, Army Disagree Over How Soldiers Allegedly  Kill Police Operatives, Release Kidnap Kingpin; Another Report Fingers Youths&#8221; &#8212; Everyday.ng\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/2019\/08\/07\/soldiers-allegedly-kill-police-operatives-release-kidnap-kingpin-another-report-fingers-youths\/embed\/#?secret=CsNEH7JZYj#?secret=cB42lkyKl1\" data-secret=\"cB42lkyKl1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With military dispatch, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has put bite to the orders of its Commander-in-chief that the circumstances that led to the death of three crack Police detectives and a civilian from the guns of soldiers be probed. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the probe after the Police and Army gave conflicting reports on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19963","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\/19963","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=19963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}