{"id":38590,"date":"2022-12-08T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=38590"},"modified":"2022-12-08T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:47:51","slug":"oguta-unknown-gunmen-ban-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=38590","title":{"rendered":"Oguta: Unknown Gunmen Ban Gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Since the issuance of the controversial sit-at-home order and its counter went viral, fears of uncertainty in the already &#8221; war turn &#8221; areas of Oguta local government area have increased as unknown gunmen there have banned gatherings of all sorts in some communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0The most affected Communities are those communities who have had axes to grind with State joint security agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">The Communities mostly affected are Izombe, Agwa and Nkwesi where unknown gunmen have challenged the joint forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0Last weekend, the people of Umudei Nkwesi who had gathered to discuss the burial of one of their own were forcefully dispersed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0An elder who pleaded anonymity in his words narrated his experience thus; &#8220;we were in a meeting when these boys came shooting into the air&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;They approached us and asked what the gathering was for. We explained to them and after hearing us out, they ordered us to disperse immediately and we did&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0&#8220;As soon as they rode off, speculations of an invasion rented the air and people starting fleeing the community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">As at the time of filing this report, movement in Nkwesi, Agwa and Izombe communities have not been free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0The prevailing predicament is now heightened with the recent speculation of a five day chain sit-at-home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\n<p class=\"yiv0240131338MsoNormal\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the issuance of the controversial sit-at-home order and its counter went viral, fears of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-view-point"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE.jpg",300,169,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE.jpg",300,169,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE.jpg",300,169,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE.jpg",300,169,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE.jpg",300,169,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE.jpg",300,169,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE.jpg",300,169,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE.jpg",300,169,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE.jpg",300,169,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/OGUTA-LAKE.jpg",50,28,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">News Digest<\/a>","tag_info":"News Digest","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38591,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590\/revisions\/38591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}