{"id":15041,"date":"2017-11-06T14:41:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T14:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=15041"},"modified":"2017-11-06T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T14:41:35","slug":"comoros-lawmaker-leading-citizenship-inquiry-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/comoros-lawmaker-leading-citizenship-inquiry-attacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Comoros lawmaker leading citizenship inquiry attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Nov 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Unknown attackers torched a car belonging to deputy head of the parliament of Comoros late on Sunday, the latest in a series of threats apparently aimed at derailing an investigation he is leading, the lawmaker said.<\/p>\n<p>Dhoulkamal Dhoihir, vice president of the National Assembly, is leading an inquiry into a plan to sell Comoros citizenship to stateless people in Gulf states. The scheme would earn Comoros, an island state off Africa\u2019s eastern coast, $200 million to $300 million, but it has been dogged by allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes a day before the commission Dhoihir heads is due to question two former presidents &#8211; Ikililou Dhoinine, who left office last year, and Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, who launched the citizenship scheme in late 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/africaTech\/idAFL5N1NC2N6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/africaTech\/idAFL5N1NC2N6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAIROBI, Nov 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Unknown attackers torched a car belonging to deputy head of the parliament of Comoros late on Sunday, the latest in a series of threats apparently aimed at derailing an investigation he is leading, the lawmaker said. Dhoulkamal Dhoihir, vice president of the National Assembly, is leading an inquiry into a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-comoros","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15042,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions\/15042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}