{"id":45498,"date":"2024-08-05T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/security-operatives-disperse-protesters-arrest-3-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:00:22","slug":"security-operatives-disperse-protesters-arrest-3-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/security-operatives-disperse-protesters-arrest-3-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Security operatives disperse protesters, arrest 3 in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Security operatives have dispersed protesters in the Karu area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, after several attempts<\/p>\n<p>The protesters were said to have started assembling when security agents went after them and arrested three.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness, Ibrahim Sani, said the police had to fire teargas to calm the situation before arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked when I saw some people gathering at Karu. I thought the gathering was supposed to be in town. The police came and dispersed the protesters with teargas. They arrested about three people that I saw,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that security operatives are everywhere in the nation\u2019s capital to monitor the situation and prevent the breakdown of law and order.<\/p>\n<p>There had been an increased vehicular movement on day five of the nationwide protests in FCT, however, government offices are still deserted.<\/p>\n<p>It was also observed that the Federal secretariat in Abuja is open, but most officials of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, are few in the offices.<\/p>\n<p>This may not be unconnected with the fear that protesters may return and clash with security operatives.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, security personnel were said to have also fired teargas at protesters at the Moshood Abiola Stadium over agitation to move to town.<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Security operatives disperse protesters, arrest 3 in Abuja<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security operatives have dispersed protesters in the Karu area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, after several attempts The protesters&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4660,4168,15,310,761],"tags":[32,134,1227,22779,764,180,2729,99,2429,302,762],"class_list":["post-45498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja","category-breaking","category-news","category-police","category-top-headlines","tag-abuja","tag-arrest","tag-breaking","tag-disperse","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-operatives","tag-police","tag-protesters","tag-security","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45498","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=45498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}