{"id":79259,"date":"2025-11-24T04:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79259"},"modified":"2025-11-24T04:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:19:40","slug":"over-30000-deaths-business-losses-linked-to-kanus-agitation-kalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/24\/over-30000-deaths-business-losses-linked-to-kanus-agitation-kalu\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 30,000 Deaths, Business Losses Linked to Kanu\u2019s Agitation -Kalu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senator Orji Uzor Kalu says more than 30,000 people have died and countless businesses destroyed as a result of Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s separatist agitation in the South-East.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu made the claim on November 23, urging a political solution to the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that the human and economic toll of the agitation has been \u201cenormous,\u201d noting that many traders lost their shops and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know that over 30,000 Igbos were killed? People who have shops lost their businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The senator cautioned against politicising Kanu\u2019s detention, stressing that resolving the issue requires sober reflection and strategic dialogue, not emotional outbursts.<\/p>\n<p>He also shared stories of affected victims, including an elderly rice trader whose shop was looted, leaving her bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu said he has been working quietly with the federal government to pursue a political settlement, arguing that compromise, not confrontation is the path to lasting peace.<\/p>\n<p>He further defended Justice James Omotosho, who recently convicted Kanu on terrorism charges, insisting that court judgments must be respected.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu\u2019s remarks follow Kanu\u2019s conviction on seven terrorism counts by a Federal High Court in Abuja, with several carrying life sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Senator Orji Uzor Kalu says more than 30,000 people have died and countless businesses destroyed as a result of Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s separatist agitation in the South-East. Kalu made the claim on November 23, urging a political solution to the crisis. He warned that the human and economic toll of the agitation has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79259","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=79259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79261,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79259\/revisions\/79261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}