{"id":18592,"date":"2019-12-07T16:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=18592"},"modified":"2019-12-07T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:33:41","slug":"presidency-reacts-to-attack-on-amaechi-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/presidency-reacts-to-attack-on-amaechi-in-spain","title":{"rendered":"Presidency reacts to attack on Amaechi in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The presidency, through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has condemned the attack on Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi in Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi personally announced the incident on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>NIDCOM chairman, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, in a statement she signed, commended the prompt intervention of the Nigerian Mission in Spain and the Spanish police.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe applaud the prompt intervention of the Nigerian Mission in Spain as well as the Spanish police who ensured that the attacks did not escalate any further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation indicates that the case is being handled by the Spanish Police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appeal to Nigerians to be of good behavior wherever they find themselves because such incidents ultimately tarnish the image of the country within the host country, with multiplier negative effects on Nigerians living in that country, who are law abiding and well behaved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Indigenous People of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biafra\">Biafra<\/a>, IPOB, have claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the year, former deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, was assaulted in Nuremberg Germany by pro-Biafra activists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidency, through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has condemned the attack on Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi in Madrid, Spain. Amaechi personally announced the incident on Friday. NIDCOM chairman, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, in a statement she signed, commended the prompt intervention of the Nigerian Mission in Spain and the Spanish police. She said: \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[250,550,199],"class_list":["post-18592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-amaechi","tag-biafra","tag-ipob"],"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>Presidency reacts to attack on Amaechi in Spain - 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\/presidency-reacts-to-attack-on-amaechi-in-spain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Presidency reacts to attack on Amaechi in Spain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The presidency, through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has condemned the attack on Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi in Madrid, Spain. 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