{"id":11389,"date":"2016-09-08T19:06:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11389"},"modified":"2016-09-08T19:06:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:06:50","slug":"edo-election-postponed-as-cross-river-police-tasked-550-men-elected-to-monitor-election-to-n5500-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11389","title":{"rendered":"Edo election postponed as Cross River Police  tasked 550 men selected to monitor the election N5500 each"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the Edo state governorship election by two weeks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decision was reached hours after the electoral body announced that it would go ahead with the election.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0 just before the Edo governorship election was postponed, the Cross River Police Command was alleged to have tasked the 550 officers and men selected to monitor the election 5500 Naira.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/INEC.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11390\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11390\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/INEC-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"inec\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/INEC-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/INEC-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/INEC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This amount the deltanewsroom.com gathered is for their individual transportation to and from Edo state billed for <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_741621107\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 10th, 2016<\/span><\/span>.<br \/>\nA circular entitled\u00a0 &#8220;Police Wireless Message&#8221; was signed by DCCID (Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of criminal investigation\u00a0 Department).<br \/>\nIt was also addressed to all sectional heads of CIID Calabar with reference No. DTO: 061432\/09\/2016.<br \/>\nThe circular,\u00a0 read\u00a0 &#8220;in view of the election scheduled for <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_741621108\"><span class=\"aQJ\">10\/09\/2016<\/span><\/span>, you are directed to pay the sum of N5,500 each for transportation.\u00a0 Payment to reach me on or before Wednesday\u00a0 07\/09\/2016. Treat as very important please&#8221;.<br \/>\nReacting to the purported circular\u00a0 the Commissioner of Police, Jimoh Ozi-Obeh described it as false and baseless noting\u00a0 &#8220;it is complete falsehood and unfounded&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe declared &#8221; where did you get such information. Go out there and interview my officers and men selected to go to Edo if there is any levy imposed on them&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;There are 550 of them going. We have arranged already 10 Pickup\u00a0 vans and two lorries for the journey&#8221;, he added.<br \/>\nThe Assistant Commissioner operations,\u00a0 Sani Salihu, is in charge of the movement. He can confirm what arrangement we are making, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the Edo state governorship election by two weeks The decision was reached hours after the electoral body announced that it would go ahead with the election. Meanwhile,\u00a0 just before the Edo governorship election was postponed, the Cross River Police Command was alleged to have tasked the 550 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[2932,2931,164,2933],"class_list":["post-11389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-cross-river-police","tag-edo-governorship","tag-inec","tag-jimoh-ozi-obeh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/INEC.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2XH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11392,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions\/11392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}