{"id":194322,"date":"2025-11-30T20:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=194322"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:16:39","slug":"senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=194322","title":{"rendered":"Senator Orji Kalu  Says Politicians Brought Bandits Into Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Senate Committee on South East Development Commission (SEDC), Orji Uzor Kalu (APC, Abia North), has said that bandits are mercenaries brought into Nigeria by politicians.\u200eUzor Kalu made this statement in an interview on Sunday Politics, a programme on Channels Television monitored by Dailypost\u200eHis comments come against the backdrop of the renewed security challenges across the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stelladimokokorkus.com\/2025\/11\/senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Senate Committee on South East Development Commission (SEDC), Orji Uzor Kalu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194322-senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria.png",72,72,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194322-senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria.png",72,72,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194322-senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria.png",72,72,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194322-senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria.png",72,72,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194322-senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria.png",72,72,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194322-senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria.png",72,72,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194322-senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria.png",72,72,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194322-senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria.png",72,72,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194322-senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria.png",72,72,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/194322-senator-orji-kalu-says-politicians-brought-bandits-into-nigeria.png",72,72,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}