{"id":56829,"date":"2024-11-23T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=56829"},"modified":"2024-11-23T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:05:34","slug":"unknown-gunmen-kidnap-3-family-members-of-former-daily-trusts-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/23\/unknown-gunmen-kidnap-3-family-members-of-former-daily-trusts-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Gunmen kidnap 3 family members of Former Daily Trust&#8217;s Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three family members of Ahmed Ajobe, a Former Editor of Daily Trust, were abducted on Thursday by gunmen in Awo, Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, including Ajobe\u2019s younger sister, Halimtu-Sadiya Tahir, were returning from a local market when they were ambushed on the dilapidated Ankpa-Adoka-Makurdi road.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came just days after the death of Ajobe&#8217;s mother, Malama Aishetu Tahir, as the family was preparing for her seven-day prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Sources revealed the kidnappers struck around 3 p.m. and later demanded a ransom of \u20a650 million. Negotiations are ongoing, but no payment has been made, and the victims remain in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>Kogi State Police Public Relations Officer William Aya confirmed the incident, stating that officers and a tactical team, under the directive of Police Commissioner Bethrand Onuoha, had been deployed to secure the victims&#8217; release.<\/p>\n<p>Aya assured the public of the police\u2019s commitment to apprehending the culprits and bringing the family members home safely.<\/p>\n<p>This latest abduction underscores growing concerns over security on the state&#8217;s neglected roads, which have become hotspots for criminal activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu Three family members of Ahmed Ajobe, a Former Editor of Daily Trust, were abducted on Thursday by gunmen in Awo, Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State. The victims, including Ajobe\u2019s younger sister, Halimtu-Sadiya Tahir, were returning from a local market when they were ambushed on the dilapidated Ankpa-Adoka-Makurdi road. The incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":56830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56829","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\/56829","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56831,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56829\/revisions\/56831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}