{"id":92150,"date":"2022-02-24T15:59:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=92150"},"modified":"2022-02-24T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:59:49","slug":"enugu-election-ugwuanyi-lg-bosses-meet-over-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/enugu-election-ugwuanyi-lg-bosses-meet-over-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Enugu election: Ugwuanyi, LG bosses meet over killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1725656379021741689\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Thursday, summoned an emergency security meeting with critical stakeholders from five local government areas in the state over the worsening security in the state of late.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe five local government areas are Nkanu West, Nkanu East, Enugu South, Enugu North and Enugu East.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent gathered that the meeting scheduled for 2:30pm was to brainstorm with leaders and stakeholders of these Council Areas to find a lasting solution to the increasing violent attacks and killings in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com had reported that no fewer than five persons were killed on Wednesday during the state council election with several others injured and property worth millions of naira destroyed by hoodlums.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Information, Steve Oruruo, the government disclosed that the meeting would hold at the Government House, Enugu.<\/p>\n<p>The chairmen of the five LGAs, all members of the State House of Assembly representing constituencies within the affected councils, traditional rulers and others were invited.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;All invitees to this meeting are expected to be seated by 2:30pm on Thursday, the 24th day of February, 2022 at the Government House, Enugu,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Hoodlums had killed no fewer than 15 persons including security operatives within the state capital in less than 14 days.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Thursday, summoned an emergency security meeting with critical stakeholders from five local government areas in the state over the worsening security in the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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