{"id":16319,"date":"2023-10-30T09:33:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T09:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2023-10-30T09:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T09:33:34","slug":"gunshots-at-rivers-assembly-as-members-begin-gov-fuburas-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16319","title":{"rendered":"Gunshots At Rivers Assembly As Members Begin Gov Fubura\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 sat to begin an impeachment process on Governor Siminalayi Fubara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7934,7903,7933],"class_list":["post-16319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-gov-fubura-impeachment","tag-gunshots","tag-rivers-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16321,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions\/16321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}