{"id":5136,"date":"2025-04-01T13:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:32:49","slug":"cancel-your-homecoming-police-warn-natasha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/04\/01\/cancel-your-homecoming-police-warn-natasha\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancel Your Homecoming, Police Warn Natasha"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-page\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-8\">\n<article class=\"single-article\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The police have asked Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan to cancel her planned Sallah rally in Kogi State\u2019s Central Senatorial District.<\/p>\n<p>Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Miller Dantawaye, stated this in a statement released on Tuesday by the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP William Aya.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Dantawaye said the rally goes against the state government\u2019s recent ban on political gatherings, which was announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads, \u201cFollowing the intelligence report on security threats in Kogi State and the subsequent ban on all forms of rally and procession by the Kogi State Government, the Nigeria Police Force, Kogi State Police Command has called on the organisers of planned rally at Okene to cancel such event in the interest of the peace in Kogi State.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe call for cancellation becomes necessary, noting that intelligence reveals that some hoodlums plan to hijack the process and cause disturbance of peace in the State. The Command cannot afford to jeopardize the existing peace the State is currently enjoying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police also warned against any attempts to defy the directive, saying, \u201cGiven the security threat received on the planned rally, the Kogi State Police Command is therefore advising the organisers to cancel the event to avoid any breakdown of law and order in the State. As the Command will not hesitate to apply the full wrath of law on anyone who causes disturbance of peace and order in the State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ban on political gatherings, which was announced on Monday,\u00a0 Akpoti Uduaghan has insisted that she will go ahead with her \u201chomecoming,\u201d stating that she is only returning to the state to celebrate Eid-el-Fitr with her constituents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container margin-top margin-bottom \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"footer-bottom\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police have asked Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan to cancel her planned Sallah rally in Kogi State\u2019s Central Senatorial District. Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Miller Dantawaye, stated this in a statement released on Tuesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5138,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}