{"id":3943,"date":"2023-10-30T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T09:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2023-10-30T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T09:26:02","slug":"gunshots-at-rivers-assembly-as-lawmakers-begin-governors-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/gunshots-at-rivers-assembly-as-lawmakers-begin-governors-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunshots at Rivers assembly as lawmakers begin governor\u2019s impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">There were gunshots and firing of teargas within the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex on Monday as some lawmakers sat to begin an impeachment process on Governor Siminalayi Fubara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">About 23 lawmakers, including the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, who presided over the sitting, resolved to begin the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lawmakers also suspended the leader of the House, Edison Ehie, and some of their colleagues believed to be loyal to the governor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recall that there was an explosion at the assembly complex on Sunday night as the chamber was razed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lawmakers immediately after the sitting, were seen at about 8:15 am driving out of the Assembly with heavy security escorts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following the gunshot and firing of teargas, people ran helter-skelter as policemen chased people, including workers whose offices are located within the area.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were gunshots and firing of teargas within the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex on Monday as some lawmakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3945,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/3945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}