{"id":29839,"date":"2024-05-02T10:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=29839"},"modified":"2024-05-02T10:23:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:23:34","slug":"suspected-kidnapper-gun-runner-nabbed-in-kogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/02\/suspected-kidnapper-gun-runner-nabbed-in-kogi\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Kidnapper, Gun Runner Nabbed in Kogi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abubakar Ali Damina, a suspected notorious kidnapper, terrorising the people of Igalamela-Odolu Local Government Area in Kogi State, has been arrested.<br \/>\nThe arrest of Damina, 43, occurred during a joint security operation at Ofodo village, close to Igabada in Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, hails from Bida in Niger State, He was found in possession of a single-barreled Dane gun and various suspicious items such as charms, a gun firing cap, and local bullets.<br \/>\nThe suspect allegedly confessed his involvement in criminal activities in Kogi State during interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Aminu, the Igalamela-Odolu Local Government Departmental Security Officer, spoke to newsmen on behalf of the council boss, Barr. Cosmos Atabor, and confirmed the arrest of the kidnapping kingpin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He told reporters that the suspect has been detained at the Kogi State Vigilante Service facility in Igalamela-Odolu and will soon be handed over to the appropriate authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abubakar Ali Damina, a suspected notorious kidnapper, terrorising the people of Igalamela-Odolu Local Government Area in Kogi State, has been arrested. The arrest of Damina, 43, occurred during a joint security operation at Ofodo village, close to Igabada in Kogi State. The suspect, hails from Bida in Niger State, He was found in possession of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":29846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[884],"class_list":["post-29839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-kogi-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29839","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=29839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29847,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29839\/revisions\/29847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}