{"id":80232,"date":"2025-12-14T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80232"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:44:00","slug":"peter-obi-calls-for-probe-into-alleged-arms-supply-to-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/14\/peter-obi-calls-for-probe-into-alleged-arms-supply-to-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi Calls for Probe into Alleged Arms Supply to Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has urged an independent investigation into claims that government officials supplied arms and support to suspected terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>The call follows the circulation of a video from Kwara State showing detainees making such allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Obi described the claims as \u201cdisturbing\u201d and said they raised serious questions about accountability within Nigeria\u2019s security apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>He called for a transparent probe to establish the facts and restore public confidence.<\/p>\n<p>The video reportedly shows individuals arrested by security forces alleging that ammunition and other logistical support were provided by officials. Nigerian authorities have not confirmed the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Obi criticised successive governments for collecting vast sums for security while insecurity, including kidnapping, banditry, and terrorism, continues to escalate.<\/p>\n<p>He also questioned why advanced surveillance and tracking systems, previously deployed, are not being used to address ongoing threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen insecurity persists on this scale, day after day, it points either to complicity or to a failure of leadership,\u201d Obi said, stressing that the government\u2019s primary responsibility is protecting life and property.<\/p>\n<p>He called for leadership grounded in competence, transparency, and accountability, insisting that insecurity must be decisively addressed, not merely managed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has urged an independent investigation into claims that government officials supplied arms and support to suspected terrorists. The call follows the circulation of a video from Kwara State showing detainees making such allegations. Obi described the claims as \u201cdisturbing\u201d and said they raised serious questions about accountability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":80233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80232","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80234,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80232\/revisions\/80234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}