{"id":24550,"date":"2020-02-15T11:38:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24550"},"modified":"2020-02-15T11:38:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:38:58","slug":"how-buratai-assisted-stranded-passengers-on-maiduguri-damboa-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24550","title":{"rendered":"How Buratai Assisted Stranded passengers on Maiduguri-Damboa road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Sumaila Ogbaje<\/strong> (NAN)<br \/>\nChief of Army Staff (COAS)\u00a0 Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Friday ordered his convoy to evacuate some passengers whose vehicle broke down along Maiduguri-Damboa road in Borno State.<br \/>\nNews Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Buratai who was en route at the time, ensured that all passengers in the vehicle were evacuated into one of the vehicles in his convoy.<br \/>\nThe action was borne out of the fact that the road was recently reopened by Nigerian Army after over a year of closure.<br \/>\nThe passenger vehicles were usually escorted in convoy by team of security agencies to and from Maiduguri to their destinations.<br \/>\nThe driver of the vehicle, Emmanuel John, told newsmen that he was part of the passenger vehicles\u2019 convoy from Maiduguri on Friday morning before he lost its shaft along the road.<br \/>\nJohn said he and his passengers were in confusion and fear before the arrival of Buratai\u2019s convoy, adding that the gesture was a prayer answered for them.<br \/>\nHe commended COAS for his commitment to safety of citizens as well as the army for their service to humanity in Borno and the nation at large.<br \/>\nThe driver said\u00a0 he intended to manage his vehicle to the nearest military check point and wait for incoming vehicles to help him\u00a0 tow it back to Maiduguri.<br \/>\n\u201cI ply this road everyday to Chibok and back to Maiduguri,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nNAN reports that the road is the shortest route from Maiduguri to different parts of the state like Danboa, Biu, Chibok and part of the neighboring states.<br \/>\nDuring the closure of the road, commuters had to spend about eight hours through other routes to get to their destinations.<br \/>\nWhile on the route, Buratai visited various troops locations and Headquarters 25 Task Force Brigade in Damboa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sumaila Ogbaje (NAN) Chief of Army Staff (COAS)\u00a0 Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Friday ordered his convoy to evacuate some passengers whose vehicle broke down along Maiduguri-Damboa road in Borno State. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Buratai who was en route at the time, ensured that all passengers in the vehicle were evacuated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[526,1012,1013],"class_list":["post-24550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-borno","tag-buratai","tag-passengers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550","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=24550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}