{"id":16635,"date":"2024-01-25T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=16635"},"modified":"2024-01-25T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T18:02:29","slug":"police-reject-n1m-bribe-arrest-bandit-in-kaduna-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/25\/police-reject-n1m-bribe-arrest-bandit-in-kaduna-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Reject N1m Bribe, Arrest Bandit in Kaduna Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police have apprehended Bello Muhammad, a 28-year-old suspected bandit, at Easyway Hotel in Tafa town, Kaduna. The Zamfara State native was discovered in possession of N2,350,000 believed to be ransom proceeds from kidnappings in the Kagarko forest area.<\/p>\n<p>Bello Muhammad confessed to being a kidnapper, and photos on his phone depicted him brandishing an AK47 rifle in a forest. In an attempt to obstruct the investigation, the suspect tried to bribe the Divisional Police Officer with one million naira, but the officer rejected the bribe.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Police, CP A.D Ali, commended the operatives of Tafa Division and urged ongoing efforts to reduce crimes in the state. He advised hoteliers and leisure service operators to scrutinize the identity of their customers to prevent providing a safe haven for criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police have apprehended Bello Muhammad, a 28-year-old suspected bandit, at Easyway Hotel in Tafa town, Kaduna. The Zamfara State native was discovered in possession of N2,350,000 believed to be ransom proceeds from kidnappings in the Kagarko forest area. Bello Muhammad confessed to being a kidnapper, and photos on his phone depicted him brandishing an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":16636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-16635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16635","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16649,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16635\/revisions\/16649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}