{"id":8998,"date":"2023-12-01T13:58:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2023-12-01T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T13:58:58","slug":"inec-confirms-gunmen-attack-on-residence-of-kogi-rec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/01\/inec-confirms-gunmen-attack-on-residence-of-kogi-rec\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Confirms Gunmen Attack on Residence of Kogi REC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially confirmed a targeted attack on the residence of its Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Lokoja, Kogi State. The incident took place in the early hours of Friday, December 1, 2023, around 3:30 a.m., as announced in a statement by INEC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The statement revealed that armed assailants engaged security personnel in a prolonged gun battle lasting over 30 minutes until reinforcements arrived. Thankfully, no lives were lost, but property damage occurred during the exchange of gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to the incident, a combined team of security personnel has been deployed to safeguard the affected residence. This event unfolded just a day after a mob besieged the Commission&#8217;s state office, underlining heightened security concerns for INEC personnel and assets in Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>INEC, expressing deep concern, has called for a thorough investigation into the attack and requested enhanced security measures to protect its personnel and assets in the state. The incident highlights the challenges faced by electoral bodies in ensuring the safety and integrity of electoral processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially confirmed a targeted attack on the residence of its Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Lokoja, Kogi State. The incident took place in the early hours of Friday, December 1, 2023, around 3:30 a.m., as announced in a statement by INEC. &nbsp; The statement revealed that armed assailants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8998","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\/8998","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9002,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions\/9002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}