{"id":16443,"date":"2024-01-25T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=16443"},"modified":"2024-01-25T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:30:07","slug":"nine-suspects-charged-in-makurdi-over-attack-on-governor-alia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/25\/nine-suspects-charged-in-makurdi-over-attack-on-governor-alia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Suspects Charged in Makurdi Over Attack on Governor Alia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-tiwyu-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-tiwyu-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col pb-9 text-sm\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-285\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"8d754a1a-c7d9-462a-a790-6aff06a1b7fd\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>The Benue State Police have brought charges against nine individuals in a Makurdi upper area court. The accused are alleged to have blocked the Makurdi-Lafia road last year, where they robbed motorists and passengers while also attacking the convoy of Rev Fr. Hyacinth Alia, the Benue State Governor.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, the accused, identified as James Orduen, Ternenge Mnyam, Tyokyaa Terzungwe, Peter Donald, Gboko Terseer, Isaac Awaaga, Robert Teghtegh, Moses Aondoaseer, and Ronald David, all residents of various addresses in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, used logs of wood to block the road at Ban village in Guma Local Government Area. During the incident, they allegedly fired gunshots at Rev Fr. Hyacinth Alia&#8217;s convoy.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution further revealed that the accused not only robbed motorists but also confiscated a Bajaj motorcycle from Yusuf Musa during the operation. The police reportedly recovered items, including a single-barrel gun, military camouflage uniforms, police identity cards, charms, and 12 ATM cards from various banks.<\/p>\n<p>During the police investigation, the accused admitted to the crimes. The defense counsels, ST Akohough and DN Kwaghtser, expressed their intention to formally apply for bail on behalf of their clients.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the upper area court judge, SD Kwen, ruled that the accused persons be remanded at the Federal Correctional Centre in Makurdi. The case has been adjourned to March 18th for further mention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benue State Police have brought charges against nine individuals in a Makurdi upper area court. The accused are alleged to have blocked the Makurdi-Lafia road last year, where they robbed motorists and passengers while also attacking the convoy of Rev Fr. Hyacinth Alia, the Benue State Governor. According to the prosecution, the accused, identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":16458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[598,59],"class_list":["post-16443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-benue-police","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16662,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443\/revisions\/16662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}