{"id":38582,"date":"2013-03-06T00:37:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/03\/jtf-averts-bloodshed-in-delta\/"},"modified":"2013-03-06T00:37:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:37:42","slug":"jtf-averts-bloodshed-in-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/03\/06\/jtf-averts-bloodshed-in-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"JTF averts bloodshed in Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"67\">\n<p>By Emma Amaize<\/p>\n<p>WARRI\u2014Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, has\u00a0 averted bloodshed between Orugbene and Afougbene communities in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>Vanguard learnt that tension mounted following the attack on Orugbene community leader, Chief Johnbull Febakumor, by suspected Afougbene youths, who laid siege to Burutu River with two speed boats and\u00a0 stopped\u00a0 boats conveying passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said the youths, armed with wood and other\u00a0 dangerous weapons, pounced on Febakumor, accusing him of standing as a witness in a land dispute between Afougbene and Ogulagha communities.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Febakumor, who spoke to Vanguard from his hospital bed in Warrri, yesterday, said: \u201cIt is God that saved my life, they almost killed me. On Monday morning, two speedboats carrying about seven persons each stopped the passenger boat that was carrying me alongside others and they started beating me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked them why they were beating me and they said I was a witness in the land dispute between Afougbene and Ogulagha communities. If not for the JTF, they would have killed me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tension rose between both communities because of the incident, but soldiers mounted surveillance on the waterways and saved the situation from degenerating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Emma Amaize WARRI\u2014Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, has\u00a0 averted bloodshed between Orugbene and Afougbene communities in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. Vanguard learnt that tension mounted following the attack on Orugbene community leader, Chief Johnbull Febakumor, by suspected Afougbene youths, who laid siege to Burutu River with two speed boats and\u00a0 stopped\u00a0 boats conveying passengers. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}