{"id":11476,"date":"2024-01-11T15:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/iswap-militants-chop-off-fishermens-hands-in-controversial-theft-charges\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:03:50","slug":"iswap-militants-chop-off-fishermens-hands-in-controversial-theft-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/iswap-militants-chop-off-fishermens-hands-in-controversial-theft-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"ISWAP militants chop off fishermen\u2019s hands in controversial theft charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ISWAP militants have reportedly severed the hands of two fishermen in Marte, Borno State, after accusing them of stealing fish.<\/p>\n<p>The fishermen were said to be part of a larger group engaged in fishing activities under the control of ISWAP, where they were subject to levies and taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad, who made this known via a post on X, said<br \/>\nthe two fishermen incurred the wrath of the militants when they were found to have failed to pay their taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Zagazola also said the terrorists confiscated eight cartons of fish belonging to the fishermen.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the militants were forced to abandon two cartons due to space constraints, after loading the fish onto their canoe.<\/p>\n<p>However, the fishermen secretly retrieved the two abandoned cartons, leading to their arrest by ISWAP on charges of theft.<\/p>\n<p>Following their arrest, the leader of the militant group ordered that the men\u2019s hands be cut off in accordance with Sharia law.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ISWAP Militants Chop Off Fishermen\u2019s Hands in Controversial Theft Charges<\/p>\n<p>By: Zagazola Makama<\/p>\n<p>ISWAP militants have recently severed the hands of two fishermen in Marte, Borno, after accusing them of stealing fish.<\/p>\n<p>The fishermen were part of a larger group engaged in fishing\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/GzHZMhy8gH<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zagazola (@ZagazOlaMakama) January 11, 2024<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>ISWAP militants chop off fishermen\u2019s hands in controversial theft charges<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISWAP militants have reportedly severed the hands of two fishermen in Marte, Borno State, after accusing them of stealing fish.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8716,4551,384,15],"tags":[8717,4552,387,180],"class_list":["post-11476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fisherman","category-iswap","category-metro","category-news","tag-fisherman","tag-iswap","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}