{"id":4869,"date":"2019-02-18T17:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2019-02-18T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:12:56","slug":"police-reveal-how-apc-chairman-was-murdered-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-reveal-how-apc-chairman-was-murdered-in-benue","title":{"rendered":"Police reveal how APC chairman was murdered in Benue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Benue State Police Command has reacted to the murder of Boniface Okloho, who was murdered by unknown gunmen on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that Okoloho, who was the chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Ohimini LGA, was murdered while returning from a function, late Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Moses Yamu, the Benue State Police Command PRO, told DAILY POST that Okloho was shot on the stomach along Ijami Road.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Nigeria-Police-Force-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Nigeria-Police-Force-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Nigeria-Police-Force.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nHe said, \u201cOn Saturday, 16\/02\/2019, at about 0005hrs, one Boniface Okloho, \u2018m\u2019, 37 years old, who was the Party Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ohimini LGA; was shot on the stomach along Ijami Road, Otukpo, by yet-to-be identified person(s), while he was returning from a political meeting. He was confirmed dead at the hospital and the corpse deposited at the morgue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commissioner of Police, CP Omololu S. Bishi, fdc has ordered immediate investigation into the incident with a view to bringing perpetrator(s) to book; while warning politicians and their supporters against acts of violence in the coming elections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benue State Police Command has reacted to the murder of Boniface Okloho, who was murdered by unknown gunmen on Saturday night. DAILY POST reports that Okoloho, who was the chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Ohimini LGA, was murdered while returning from a function, late Saturday night. Moses Yamu, the Benue State Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14],"tags":[331,136,231,165,293,197],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-benue","tag-death","tag-military","tag-police","tag-soldiers","tag-states"],"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>Police reveal how APC chairman was murdered in Benue - 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\/policy\/police-reveal-how-apc-chairman-was-murdered-in-benue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police reveal how APC chairman was murdered in Benue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Benue State Police Command has reacted to the murder of Boniface Okloho, who was murdered by unknown gunmen on Saturday night. 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