{"id":25499,"date":"2024-04-04T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nine-arrested-over-killing-of-policemen-in-delta\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:04:00","slug":"nine-arrested-over-killing-of-policemen-in-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nine-arrested-over-killing-of-policemen-in-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Nine arrested over killing of policemen in Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, says nine persons have been arrested in connection with the killings of police officers in the Ughelli area of Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>Egbetokun made this announcement on Thursday at a management meeting of the Force.<\/p>\n<p>He said those arrested are currently providing the Force with information that will assist in the arrest of those involved in the killings.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that six police officers were killed at Ohoro forest, in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State on February 23, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, six other suspects connected with the killings are at large.<\/p>\n<p>Their death came almost at the same time 17 military personnel were murdered in the oil-rich Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers were killed while on a peace mission in Okuama community of Ughelli South Local Government Area in an incident that caused nationwide outrage and condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>During their burial last week, military authorities vowed to hunt down the masterminds of the attack but insisted the development won\u2019t deter them from stamping out criminals from the country.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu equally conferred posthumous national awards on the slain soldiers and awarded scholarships to their children.<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Nine arrested over killing of policemen in Delta<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, says nine persons have been arrested in connection with the killings of police&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4168,1535,384,15,761],"tags":[1227,130,764,387,180,762],"class_list":["post-25499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-delta","category-metro","category-news","category-top-headlines","tag-breaking","tag-delta","tag-headlines","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25499","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=25499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}