{"id":174309,"date":"2024-06-11T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T17:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-defence-ministry-staff-protest-brutalisation-killing-by-soldiers-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T19:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T17:39:35","slug":"nigeria-defence-ministry-staff-protest-brutalisation-killing-by-soldiers-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-defence-ministry-staff-protest-brutalisation-killing-by-soldiers-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Defence Ministry Staff Protest Brutalisation, Killing By Soldiers in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The staff said they have suffered brutalisation over the years without justice being done, even though the incidents were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Some civilian staff of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/defence.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of Defence<\/a><\/strong> Headquarters, Abuja, on Tuesday, protested the alleged brutalisation of their colleagues by military officers posted to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The protest, led by Elijah Ajunda, the chairperson of one of the workers&#8217; unions in the ministry, started at about 8 a.m. at its premises in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The protesters numbering about 50 blocked&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406110573.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The staff said they have suffered brutalisation over the years without justice being done, even though the incidents were reported. Some civilian staff of the Ministry of Defence Headquarters, Abuja, on Tuesday, protested the alleged brutalisation of their colleagues by military officers posted to the ministry. The protest, led by Elijah Ajunda, the chairperson of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[347,258,256,37320,6874,7805,6857,257,4687,393,2194,4401,254,6221],"class_list":["post-174309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abuja","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brutalisation","tag-defence","tag-killing","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-protest","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}