{"id":7384,"date":"2016-02-01T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2016-02-01T12:10:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:10:01","slug":"ijaw-council-petitions-defence-ministter-over-indiscriminate-shooting-into-ijaw-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7384","title":{"rendered":"Ijaw Council petitions Defence Ministter over indiscriminate shooting into Ijaw communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) yesterday called on the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Dan Ali to prevail on military officers, particularly those attached to Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS Delta) to immediately stop the <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Niger-Delta-map-1-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7301\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Niger-Delta-map-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Niger Delta map\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Niger-Delta-map-1-1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Niger-Delta-map-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Niger-Delta-map-1-1-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Niger-Delta-map-1-1-40x40.jpg 40w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Niger-Delta-map-1-1-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Niger-Delta-map-1-1-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> directly opposite the Warri Naval Base.<\/p>\n<p>The group recalled that for some time now and for no reason, military officers attached to the naval base, Warri and those patrolling the Warri river have been indiscriminately shooting into Naifor Island, Desemor Island, Oroupa Island and other Ijaw Communities directly opposite Warri especially late in the night.<\/p>\n<p>These shootings, according to a statement signed by the IYC spokesman, Eric Omare, occurred last Friday and Saturday respectively adding\u201d this has led to cases of injury to those running for safety and many residents moving out from these Ijaw communities to other places.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IYC cannot see any reason for this sudden unprovoked attack on Ijaw communities around Warri and its environs. The military authorities must immediately call on the officers concerned to stop this unwarranted attack on innocent Ijaw people and communities\u201d, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The group recalled that Ijaw people and communities around Warri have lived in those places for centuries without constituting any security threat.<\/p>\n<p>The IYC therefore called for an investigation into what it termed \u201cshow of indiscipline and unprofessionalism\u201d and officers responsible be punished to serve as deterrent to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) yesterday called on the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Dan Ali to prevail on military officers, particularly those attached to Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS Delta) to immediately stop the directly opposite the Warri Naval Base. The group recalled that for some time now and for no reason, military officers attached to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7301,"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":[296,1265,1266],"class_list":["post-7384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-eric-omare","tag-ijaw-youth-council","tag-nns-delta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Niger-Delta-map-1-1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1V6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7385,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions\/7385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}