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One person died and several properties destroyed during a violent protest in\u00a0\u00a0Okwu Uratta<\/span><\/a>\u00a0community, Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The unrest was sparked by the killing of a youth, Friday Njoku, allegedly by members of the local vigilante group.<\/p>\n According to an eyewitness, the youths accused the leader of the vigilante group, Emmanuel Abakporo, an officer of the Nigeria Correctional Service, of supervising Njoku\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n In a fit of rage, the youths stormed Abakporo\u2019s house, beat his son and set his wife\u2019s shop ablaze.<\/p>\n They later returned to his house, razing it with his car, motorcycles and household equipment.<\/p>\n \u201cOur community is on fire. The youths are on rampage,\u201d said a resident who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n \u201cA young man was killed on Sunday and his body was dumped in the community. People said that it was the security personnel who shot him dead.<\/p>\n \u201cThe police have arrived at the scene and are working to restore normalcy. The family of the victim and the youths in the community are demanding justice,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Imo Police spokesperson Henry Okoye confirmed that the Commissioner of Police, Danjuma Aboki, has sent a team to the scene for a rescue mission.<\/p>\n \u201cFirefighters have also been deployed to put out the inferno. The police have launched an investigation into the incident to bring the offenders to justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One person died and several properties destroyed during a violent protest in\u00a0\u00a0Okwu Uratta\u00a0community, Owerri North<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1.jpg",672,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1-300x179.jpg",300,179,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1.jpg",640,381,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1.jpg",640,381,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1.jpg",672,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1.jpg",672,400,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1.jpg",672,400,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1.jpg",638,380,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1.jpg",300,179,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-map-1.jpg",50,30,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43171","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=43171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43172,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43171\/revisions\/43172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}