{"id":25264,"date":"2024-03-29T19:48:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T19:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=25264"},"modified":"2024-03-29T19:48:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T19:48:40","slug":"delta-king-ikolo-handed-over-to-military-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/29\/delta-king-ikolo-handed-over-to-military-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta King Ikolo Handed Over to Military by Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State Police Command has handed over King Ikolo to the military, as confirmed by Bright Edafe, the Public Relations Officer of the Delta State Police Command.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>King Ikolo, one of the eight persons wanted by the Defence Headquarters in connection with the killing of 17 military personnel in Okuama community, surrendered himself to the Delta State Police Command on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The monarch presented himself at the state police command headquarters at 6:41 pm and reported to Police Commissioner Olufemi Abaniwonda.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before surrendering to the police, King Ikolo spoke to journalists, maintaining his innocence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, the Defence Headquarters declared eight individuals, including Ikolo, wanted for their alleged involvement in the recent killing of 17 military personnel during a peacekeeping mission in Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The individuals declared wanted are Prof. Ekpekpo Arthur, Andaowei Dennis Bakriri, Akevwru Daniel Omotegbo (Aka Amagben), Akata Malawa David, Sinclear Oliki, traditional ruler Clement Ikolo Oghenerukeywe, Reuben Baru, and Igoli Ebi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State Police Command has handed over King Ikolo to the military, as confirmed by Bright Edafe, the Public Relations Officer of the Delta State Police Command. &nbsp; King Ikolo, one of the eight persons wanted by the Defence Headquarters in connection with the killing of 17 military personnel in Okuama community, surrendered himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":25265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25264","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25266,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25264\/revisions\/25266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}