{"id":18319,"date":"2024-02-05T05:13:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T05:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=18319"},"modified":"2024-02-05T05:13:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T05:13:53","slug":"police-arrest-suspected-killer-of-ekiti-monarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/05\/police-arrest-suspected-killer-of-ekiti-monarchs\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Suspected Killer Of Ekiti Monarchs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested a suspect, Babusa Lede, in connection with the killing of two traditional rulers in Ekiti State.<\/p>\n<p>The arrested suspect confessed to being among the group that attacked the traditional rulers, but claimed he was forced to join the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The two monarchs, Elesun of Esun Ekiti and Olumojo of Imojo-Ekiti, were killed, while the Alara of Ara (Ikole) escaped during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The police are making efforts to apprehend other suspects involved in the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the police reported the arrest of some individuals in various locations but no arrests were made in the release operation of abducted school pupils and teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested a suspect, Babusa Lede, in connection with the killing of two traditional rulers in Ekiti State. The arrested suspect confessed to being among the group that attacked the traditional rulers, but claimed he was forced to join the operation. The two monarchs, Elesun of Esun Ekiti and Olumojo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":18320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319","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=18319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18321,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319\/revisions\/18321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}