{"id":4651,"date":"2020-03-04T09:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T09:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2020-03-04T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T09:23:33","slug":"is-the-bearing-of-unlicensed-firearms-no-longer-punishable-ohanaeze-reacts-to-police-refusal-to-arrest-fulani-boys-with-ak-47-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=4651","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Is the bearing of unlicensed firearms no longer punishable?,\u2019 Ohanaeze reacts to police refusal to arrest Fulani boys with AK-47 rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/John-Nnia-Nwodo1-e1564127784947.jpg\" alt=\"Ohanaeze distances self from ultimatum on govt to tag Shi\u2019ites terrorist group\" width=\"662\" height=\"355\"\/><figcaption>Chief Nnia Nwodo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Tuesday expressed disappointment over the alleged refusal of the Anambra State police command to arrest two Fulani boys that openly displayed AK-47 riffles in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President General of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/tag\/Ohanaeze\">Ohanaeze Ndigbo<\/a>, Chief Nnia Nwodo, in a letter addressed to the Inspector General of Police , Mohammed Adamu, and titled \u201cThe road to anarchy,\u201d vowed that the group would no longer tolerate the situation Fulani herdsmen would continue to harass, rape and kill the people of the region in their land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are law-abiding, hospitable and always ready to coexist with others as friends and brothers but not as foes and at a supreme price. Enough is enough,\u201d Nwodo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He faulted the state police commissioner for refusing to order the arrest of the two Fulani boys, saying they were spared \u201cbecause they came from a particular section of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: \u201cIs the bearing of unlicensed firearms no longer illegal and therefore punishable in breach of the laws of this country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe behaviour of the police probably explains why it is only police commissioners from a particular part of the country that are posted to Igbo land. This also tends to lay credence to the fears being harboured by our people that even the military laying siege to Igbo land are here to protect the interest of an ethnic group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot only have Ndigbo been marginalised in this country, they are being pushed to the brink. It is always said that no country survives a second civil war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Tuesday expressed disappointment over the alleged refusal of the Anambra State police command to arrest two Fulani boys that openly displayed AK-47 riffles in the state. The President General of the&nbsp;Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, in a letter addressed to the Inspector General of Police , Mohammed Adamu, and titled \u201cThe road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Is the bearing of unlicensed firearms no longer punishable?,\u2019 Ohanaeze reacts to police refusal to arrest Fulani boys with AK-47 rifles &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=4651\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=4651#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Uncategorized\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=1\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"\u2018Is the bearing of unlicensed firearms no longer punishable?,\u2019 Ohanaeze reacts to police refusal to arrest Fulani boys with AK-47 rifles\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u2018Is the bearing of unlicensed firearms no longer punishable?,\u2019 Ohanaeze reacts to police refusal to arrest Fulani boys with AK-47 rifles &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=4651","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=4651#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Uncategorized","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=1"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"\u2018Is the bearing of unlicensed firearms no longer punishable?,\u2019 Ohanaeze reacts to police refusal to arrest Fulani boys with AK-47 rifles"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Tuesday expressed disappointment over the alleged refusal of the Anambra State police command to arrest two Fulani boys that openly displayed AK-47 riffles in the state. The President General of the&nbsp;Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, in a letter addressed to the Inspector General of Police , Mohammed Adamu, and titled \u201cThe road&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}