{"id":33716,"date":"2021-05-30T15:55:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=33716"},"modified":"2021-05-30T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:55:57","slug":"how-gulak-was-intercepted-identified-and-gunned-down-in-owerri-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=33716","title":{"rendered":"How Gulak was intercepted, identified, and gunned down in Owerri, by Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police in Imo State, has narrated how former Political Adviser to former President Goodlluck Jonathan was intercepted and gunned down in the State capital, Owerri<br \/><br \/>According to a statement titled, Murder of Ahmed Gulak, armed bandits at about 7.20 a.m. &#8220;intercepted and attacked a Toyota Camry cab carrying Ahmed Gulak and two others who were on their way to Sam Mbakwe Airport to catch a flight.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>&#8220;Ahmed Gulak left his room at Protea Hotel without informing the Police nor sister agencies in view of the fragile security situation in the South East and Imo in particular.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;He left without any security escorts and while the cab driver took irregular route to the airport, six armed bandits who rode in a Toyota Sienna intercepted, identified and shot at Ahmed Gulak at around Umueze Obiangwu in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area close to the Airport.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;The Commissioner of Police Imo CP Abutu Yaro, fdc has directed a discreet investigation into the matter as Tactical and Special forces have been deployed to cordone the area and arrest perpetrators,&#8221; the statement by Superintendent Bala Elkana, Police Public Relations Officer, on behalf of the Imo State Commisioner said.<br \/><br \/>The Police statement which suggested it was an assassination did not say what happened to the two men in the car with him.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement was silent on the narrative in the public domain that the Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), which ordered a stay-at-home order was responsible for the killing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police in Imo State, has narrated how former Political Adviser to former President Goodlluck Jonathan was intercepted and gunned down in the State capital, Owerri According to a statement titled, Murder of Ahmed Gulak, armed bandits at about 7.20 a.m. &#8220;intercepted and attacked a Toyota Camry cab carrying Ahmed Gulak and two others who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5781],"tags":[3448,1043,234],"class_list":["post-33716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-obituary","tag-gulak","tag-murder","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33716","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=33716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}