{"id":11263,"date":"2019-06-08T18:55:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T18:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11263"},"modified":"2019-06-08T18:55:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T18:55:04","slug":"kidnap-of-expatriates-wike-gives-andoni-chiefs-lg-boss-3-day-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnap-of-expatriates-wike-gives-andoni-chiefs-lg-boss-3-day-ultimatum","title":{"rendered":"Kidnap of expatriates: Wike gives Andoni chiefs, LG boss 3-day ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Saturday gave a 72-hour ultimatum to chiefs and leaders in Andoni Local Government Area to ensure the immediate release of three kidnapped expatriates.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s directives is contained in a statement on Saturday by Mr Simeon Nwakaudu, his Special Assistant on Electronic Media.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the expatriates, who until their kidnap worked for Raffoul Nigeria Limited, were involved in the construction of the Unity Road in Andoni council area.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor warned that failure to secure the release of the expatriates at the expiration of the ultimatum would attract consequences from his administration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_code\">\n<p>Wike also threatened to formally withdraw the \u201crecognition of all Government Recognised Chiefs\u201d in the area \u201cand cancel the Andoni aspect of the Unity Road\u201d if the expatriates were not released.<\/p>\n<p>He further directed that other communities must take measures to protect contractors and workers executing projects for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same sanctions will be meted to other communities where chiefs and leaders allow project contractors to be kidnapped by youths,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Saturday gave a 72-hour ultimatum to chiefs and leaders in Andoni Local Government Area to ensure the immediate release of three kidnapped expatriates. The governor\u2019s directives is contained in a statement on Saturday by Mr Simeon Nwakaudu, his Special Assistant on Electronic Media. According to the statement, the expatriates, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[204,209,138,454],"class_list":["post-11263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-government","tag-governor","tag-kidnap","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kidnap of expatriates: Wike gives Andoni chiefs, LG boss 3-day ultimatum - Nigeria<\/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:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnap-of-expatriates-wike-gives-andoni-chiefs-lg-boss-3-day-ultimatum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kidnap of expatriates: Wike gives Andoni chiefs, LG boss 3-day ultimatum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gov. 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