{"id":58307,"date":"2024-12-21T18:47:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58307"},"modified":"2024-12-21T18:47:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:47:57","slug":"just-in-igp-warns-against-unorganized-palliative-distributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/21\/just-in-igp-warns-against-unorganized-palliative-distributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in: IGP Warns Against Unorganized Palliative Distributions\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has warned against uncoordinated palliative distributions, citing the need for structured and secure processes to prevent further tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>His warning follows recent stampedes in Ibadan, Abuja, and Anambra that claimed multiple lives.<\/p>\n<p>On December 18, 2024, a children\u2019s funfair in Ibadan turned tragic when a stampede killed 35 children and critically injured many others.<\/p>\n<p>Similar incidents occurred at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Maitama, Abuja, resulting in 10 deaths, and in Okija, Anambra, where three fatalities were recorded during a palliative distribution by philanthropist Obi Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lack of proper planning in aid distribution has caused chaos, stampedes, and needless confrontations.<\/p>\n<p>This negligence is both unacceptable and criminal under the law,\u201d Egbetokun said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged individuals, NGOs, and community leaders to collaborate with government agencies for structured aid distribution and to involve security personnel to ensure safety.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that negligence would attract legal consequences under Sec. 196 of the Penal Code and Sec. 344 of the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n<p>The IGP has directed state police commissioners to investigate the incidents and hold those responsible accountable.<\/p>\n<p>He extended condolences to the victims&#8217; families and wished the injured a quick recovery, reaffirming the police&#8217;s commitment to ensuring safe and orderly aid distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has warned against uncoordinated palliative distributions, citing the need for structured and secure processes to prevent further tragedies. His warning follows recent stampedes in Ibadan, Abuja, and Anambra that claimed multiple lives. On December 18, 2024, a children\u2019s funfair in Ibadan turned tragic when a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58309,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58307\/revisions\/58309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}