{"id":1329,"date":"2023-08-14T19:45:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2023-08-14T19:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:45:59","slug":"abducted-traditional-ruler-regains-freedom-in-nasarawa-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/08\/14\/abducted-traditional-ruler-regains-freedom-in-nasarawa-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Abducted Traditional Ruler Regains Freedom in Nasarawa State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The abducted traditional ruler of Gurku chiefdom in Karu Local Government area of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Jibrin Waziri has been released after a week in captivity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The traditional ruler and his wife were abducted by gunmen from their home on Aug. 6.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The release of the chief was confirmed by the Police Command in the state and Gurku Traditional Council.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A statement by Malam Zubairu Adamu, the District Head and Madaki of Gurku, said Waziri was released on Monday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He however said that the chief\u2019s wife, Hajia Sa\u2019adatu, was yet to be released.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe royal father was released by his abductors in the early hours of Monday unhurt.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe thank all that assisted in one way or the other towards the release of the monarch, but regrettably, the abductors are still holding hostage the wife Hajia Sa\u2019adatu who was kidnapped along with the royal father.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe palace calls for intensified prayers for the release of the wife of the royal father,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Also, DSP Ramhan Nansel, spokesman of the police command in the state, confirmed the development and said efforts were on to ensure the release of the wife of the traditional ruler.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abducted traditional ruler of Gurku chiefdom in Karu Local Government area of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Jibrin Waziri has been released after a week in captivity. The traditional ruler and his wife were abducted by gunmen from their home on Aug. 6. The release of the chief was confirmed by the Police Command in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}