{"id":27093,"date":"2020-07-06T20:40:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27093"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:40:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T19:40:12","slug":"plateau-two-suspects-in-police-net-over-murder-of-12-year-old-herder-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27093","title":{"rendered":"Plateau: Two suspects in police net over murder of 12 year-old herder boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong>Ron-well Jacob<\/strong>, Jos<br \/>\nTwo suspects alleged to have murdered a 12 year old herder have been arrested by<br \/>\nOperation Safe Haven (OPSH), Special Tasks Force (STF) in charge of security in Plateau State.<br \/>\nThe herder, one Mustapha Abubakar was reported killed while rearing his father&#8217;s cows at Dong village in Jos North Local Government Area by the suspects.<br \/>\nA press statement signed by the information Officer of the Jos North Local Government Area, Mr Philip Eplong, described the incident as&#8221;heartless&#8221; and &#8220;wicked.&#8221;<br \/>\nEplong explained that the suspects are\u00a0 presently\u00a0 in the custody of the Police.<br \/>\nHe said that the Commander, Sector 3 of Operations Safe Haven, Colonel Tosin Ayoola made the disclosure while briefing the council&#8217;s Management Committee Chairman, Mr Shehu Bala Usman,\u00a0 on the\u00a0security situation in the area<br \/>\n&#8220;According to him, a combined security team is\u00a0working hard to apprehend the remaining fleeing suspects for further interrogation.<br \/>\n&#8220;Already, the STF team will\u00a0 continue to work closely with\u00a0 inhabitants of the area to sustain the peace of\u00a0 the area,&#8221; he assured.<br \/>\nResponding, Usman\u00a0 condemned the killing of the young cattle rearer describing it as &#8220;very unfortunate.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe LG boss further explained that the killing happened when the council was in constant engagement with the\u00a0 Irigwe, Afizere, Berom and Fulani\u00a0in the community on the need for peaceful coexistence amongst them.<br \/>\nHe, however, called on\u00a0 the people of the Area to remain calm as security agencies and the Council are on top of the situation to bring the perpetrators to justice.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the attack came when Government at all levels were fighting the\u00a0 dreaded COVID 19 pandemic.<br \/>\nUsman warned\u00a0residents of the Area that the Council would not accept any further breach of the peace in the locality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ron-well Jacob, Jos Two suspects alleged to have murdered a 12 year old herder have been arrested by Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Special Tasks Force (STF) in charge of security in Plateau State. The herder, one Mustapha Abubakar was reported killed while rearing his father&#8217;s cows at Dong village in Jos North Local Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5779,7,5781],"tags":[1837,1838,1839],"class_list":["post-27093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agriculture","category-news","category-obituary","tag-1837","tag-herdsboy","tag-stf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27093","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=27093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}