{"id":1840,"date":"2019-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/senate-calls-on-un-to-investigate-the-killings-of-nigerians-in-libya\/"},"modified":"2019-07-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T00:00:00","slug":"senate-calls-on-un-to-investigate-the-killings-of-nigerians-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/senate-calls-on-un-to-investigate-the-killings-of-nigerians-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Calls On Un To Investigate The Killings Of Nigerians In Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate at its plenary session of Tuesday, 9 July 2019, called on the United Nations to investigate the double airstrike at a detention centre outside Tripoli, Libya that left over 100 people, including 9 Nigerians dead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Presenting a motion titled \u201c<strong><em>The Death of Nine (9) Nigerian Migrants in Libya<\/em><\/strong>\u201d Sen. Jibrin Barau (APC; Kano) stated that the detention centre which contained more than 600 people was attacked on Wednesday, 3 July 2019 killing mainly women and children.\u00a0 \u00a0He also noted that it was the second attack on the detention centre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Barau explained that the attack, which has been described by the United Nations as \u201ca war crime\u201d, was a consequence from the ongoing conflict in the country and urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to intensify efforts to repatriate Nigerian citizens from Libyan Detention Camps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate further called on the Libyan Government to immediately release and relocate refugees and migrants living in detention centers to safe shelters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate at its plenary session of Tuesday, 9 July 2019, called on the United Nations to investigate the double airstrike at a detention centre outside Tripoli, Libya that left over 100 people, including 9 Nigerians dead. &nbsp; Presenting a motion titled \u201cThe Death of Nine (9) Nigerian Migrants in Libya\u201d Sen. Jibrin Barau (APC; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"PLAC","author_link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/author\/olumide-adebayo\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 10, 2019","modified":"Updated on July 10, 2019"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 10, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on July 10, 2019 12:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}