{"id":62884,"date":"2023-03-07T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=62884"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:07:23","slug":"reprisal-attack-gunmen-kill-pastor-two-sons-in-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=62884","title":{"rendered":"Reprisal Attack: Gunmen kill pastor, two sons in Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-post-feat-img\" class=\"left relative mvp-post-feat-img-wide2\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-wrap\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-soc-out right relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-soc-mob-wrap\">\n<div class=\"mvp-soc-mob-out left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-soc-mob-in\">\n<div class=\"mvp-soc-mob-left left relative\">\n<p>Gunmen have killed Rev. Musa Hyok, and his two sons at Ganawuri community of Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau.<\/p>\n<div class=\"whatsapp-share\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mvp-post-soc-in\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-body\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-body-top\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"tps_slideContainer_49959\" class=\"theiaPostSlider_slides\">\n<div class=\"theiaPostSlider_preloadedSlide\">\n<p>DSP Alfred Alabo, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) confirmed the incident to newsmen on Monday in Jos.<\/p>\n<p>Alabo, who said that the slain cleric was a priest of the Church of Christ in Nation (COCIN), was killed on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe command has commenced an investigation to unravel those behind the attack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Song Moro, the Youth Leader of the community alleged that the incident was an reprisal attack following the killing of three Fulani youths in the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dTrouble started when some suspected Fulani kidnappers were arrested last Wednesday which is our Market day, but later escaped in the hands of Fulani Vigilante who were to keep them before the arrival of security operatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The situation degenerated into an argument and later escalated to a clash leading to the death of three fulani youths despite several meetings and appeals for calm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe suspect that that situation led to this attack on an innocent family that knows nothing about last Wednesday\u2019s incident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moro said that bodies of the pastor and his sons had been buried today amid tension and tight security in the entire Ganawuri axis.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0e Report by <strong>NAN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen have killed Rev. Musa Hyok, and his two sons at Ganawuri community of Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau. DSP Alfred Alabo, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) confirmed the incident to newsmen on Monday in Jos. Alabo, who said that the slain cleric was a priest of the Church of Christ in Nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":58612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5807,7],"tags":[659,1058,854],"class_list":["post-62884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime-and-violence","category-news","tag-gunmen","tag-pastor","tag-plateau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62884","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=62884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}