{"id":9813,"date":"2013-08-18T14:57:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T14:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/police-urges-rwandans-to-ignore-229-phone-call\/"},"modified":"2013-08-18T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T15:07:14","slug":"police-urges-rwandans-to-ignore-229-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/police-urges-rwandans-to-ignore-229-phone-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Urges Rwandans to Ignore +229 Phone call Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda National Police has urged phone owners to remain calm following threats contained in a text message being circulated claiming that if any subscriber answers a  phone call with a code +229, they would instantly die.}}<\/p>\n<p>The message which has circulated throughout the country has caused panic among unsuspecting phone users that have also forwarded the message to their friends and relatives causing more panic.<\/p>\n<p>Several phone owners in the country began recieving a warning message Saturday  asking them not to answer the +229 phone call because they would die instantly if they did.<\/p>\n<p>However, Police has dismissed the text message threats and urged people to ignore it and continue with their daily activities.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the +229 is country code for Benin in west Africa (check map below)<br \/>\nUnconfirmed rumours being circulated subject to the mystery phone number +229 allege that dozens of people that answered the phone call in west Africa had died. <\/p>\n<p>ACP Theos Badege the Police Spokesperson said, the message is being circulated by idle people intent on defaming other; \u201cdo not give value to such messages. Its conmen circulating them. No Rwandan should believe such messages\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ACP Badege warned that if people behind these messages are arrested, they would be punished according to the law.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3426 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bnbvnb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3425 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/x.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda National Police has urged phone owners to remain calm following threats contained in a text message being circulated claiming that if any subscriber answers a phone call with a code +229, they would instantly die.}} The message which has circulated throughout the country has caused panic among unsuspecting phone users that have also forwarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9813"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9813"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}