{"id":16208,"date":"2024-01-24T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=16208"},"modified":"2024-01-24T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:25:38","slug":"insecurity-state-governors-vow-to-implement-death-sentence-to-kidnappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/24\/insecurity-state-governors-vow-to-implement-death-sentence-to-kidnappers\/","title":{"rendered":"INSECURITY: State Governors Vow to Implement Death Sentence to Kidnappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the growing concern over the raging abduction menace in the country, no fewer than ten states have vowed to implement the death sentence and life imprisonment for convicted kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>States including Kano, Benue,\u00a0 Bayelsa,\u00a0 Enugu,\u00a0 Anambra, and Nasarawa, affirmed their commitment to applying the death sentence to anyone convicted of kidnapping in their jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of Kwara, Ondo, and Osun states vowed to ensure the implementation of relevant anti-kidnapping laws including life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The respective states made the vow on Tuesday as the Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, deployed intelligence squads to state commands and formations to tackle the wave of abductions and other crimes across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the growing concern over the raging abduction menace in the country, no fewer than ten states have vowed to implement the death sentence and life imprisonment for convicted kidnappers. States including Kano, Benue,\u00a0 Bayelsa,\u00a0 Enugu,\u00a0 Anambra, and Nasarawa, affirmed their commitment to applying the death sentence to anyone convicted of kidnapping in their jurisdictions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,182],"tags":[574],"class_list":["post-16208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-defence-and-security","tag-kidnapping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16208","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16210,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16208\/revisions\/16210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}