{"id":28772,"date":"2024-04-24T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=28772"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:23:59","slug":"abuja-herdsman-arrested-for-kidnapping-bolt-driver-demanding-n100-million-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/24\/abuja-herdsman-arrested-for-kidnapping-bolt-driver-demanding-n100-million-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja: Herdsman Arrested for kidnapping Bolt driver, demanding N100 million Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gwagwalada Division of the FCT High Court on Wednesday ordered a 35-year-old herdsman, Adamu Idris, to be remanded in Kuje Prison custody for kidnapping a Bolt driver.<\/p>\n<p>The police charged Mr Idris with two counts of kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution counsel, Okokon Udo, told the court that the defendant and others, at large on September 13, 2023, in Galadimawa, Abuja, conspired and kidnapped Siman Yakubu, a Bolt driver of Tungamaje village, FCT.<\/p>\n<p>He said the defendant and his gang demanded N100 million as ransom.<\/p>\n<p>The police said the defendant eventually collected N110,000.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Aliyu Shafa ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison custody and adjourned until June 20 for a hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gwagwalada Division of the FCT High Court on Wednesday ordered a 35-year-old herdsman, Adamu Idris, to be remanded in Kuje Prison custody for kidnapping a Bolt driver. The police charged Mr Idris with two counts of kidnapping. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge. The prosecution counsel, Okokon Udo, told the court that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":28666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28772","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=28772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28774,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28772\/revisions\/28774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}