{"id":105529,"date":"2015-04-06T07:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=105529"},"modified":"2015-04-06T07:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:43:41","slug":"pusag-condemns-garissa-university-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=105529","title":{"rendered":"PUSAG condemns Garissa University massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private Universities Students\u2019 Association, Ghana (PUSAG) has condemned the attack on students and lecturers of Garissa University College in Kenya by Islamist militant group, Al-Shabaab.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;v35bmfUD9N3XGLX0H9DUsQ9YD42QTohm&#8221;]The Association also expressed its heartfelt sympathy to the victims and families of the 147 students and who lost their lives in the attack last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the PUAG\u2019s Director of International Affairs, Richard Odame said: \u201cWe, PUSAG, condemn the grisly and dastardly attack, heavy gunfire and explosions for hours at Garissa University College on Thursday 2nd April, 2015. We feel very incomplete for losing a significant number of transformational students who would join the ship for Africa\u2019s success and development few years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Odame noted that members of PUSAG are willing to assist in any way possible although there are \u201cno quantum of expressions of words to ease your pain. Please note that our prayers are with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/02\/masked-gunmen-storm-eastern-kenya-university\/#sthash.Jqbfniay.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>masked gun men opened fire on students<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of the Garissa University College in Kenya killing about 147 persons.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Kenyan government has placed a 20 million Kenyan shillings ($215,000) <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/06\/garissa-attack-215000-bounty-placed-on-ring-leader\/#sthash.g3rkk0Vs.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>bounty on the ring leader of the group,<\/strong><\/span><\/a> Mohamed Mohamud who is suspected to have masterminded the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Frantic search is underway in Kenya to arrest and bring him to book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private Universities Students\u2019 Association, Ghana (PUSAG) has condemned the attack on students and lecturers of Garissa University College in Kenya by Islamist militant group, Al-Shabaab. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;v35bmfUD9N3XGLX0H9DUsQ9YD42QTohm&#8221;]The Association also expressed its heartfelt sympathy to the victims and families of the 147 students and who lost their lives in the attack last Thursday. A statement signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":105530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-105529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}