{"id":57232,"date":"2024-11-28T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57232"},"modified":"2024-11-28T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:00:50","slug":"bayelsa-apc-chieftain-abducted-wife-raises-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/28\/bayelsa-apc-chieftain-abducted-wife-raises-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa APC Chieftain Abducted, Wife Raises Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Faith Adama<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bayelsa State was thrown into turmoil following the midnight abduction of Charles Kurubo, a prominent All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, from his Opolo Road residence near Saipem.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Mrs. Edith Thomas, has raised a desperate alarm, calling for swift intervention from authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The harrowing incident occurred on November 19, 2024, as a convoy of about 15 vehicles stormed the residence, with armed men in police and civil defence uniforms firing gunshots to force compliance.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mrs. Thomas, the assailants shattered the family\u2019s sense of security, demanding her husband\u2019s surrender before whisking him away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI watched helplessly as they dragged my husband out of our home. The invaders used their uniforms and weapons to intimidate us, leaving us shaken and terrified,\u201d she tearfully recounted to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kurubo, a former aide to Governor Douye Diri and Chairman of the Niger Delta Ex-agitators\u2019 Leadership Forum, is a vocal critic of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), and the allocation of pipeline surveillance contracts to Tantita Security Company, led by ex-militant leader High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo.<\/p>\n<p>The family\u2019s search for answers has been met with silence. Both the Bayelsa State Police Command and the Department of State Security (DSS), have denied any involvement or custody of Mr. Kurubo, deepening fears about his safety.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Thomas pleaded passionately for intervention from the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, to locate her husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are living in fear and uncertainty. I beg the authorities to find my husband before it\u2019s too late,\u201d she implored.<\/p>\n<p>The incident raises critical questions about security and the rule of law, especially given Mr. Kurubo\u2019s outspoken stance on contentious regional issues.<\/p>\n<p>As the family clings to hope, Bayelsa residents and political observers are watching closely for developments in this troubling case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Adama Bayelsa State was thrown into turmoil following the midnight abduction of Charles Kurubo, a prominent All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, from his Opolo Road residence near Saipem. His wife, Mrs. Edith Thomas, has raised a desperate alarm, calling for swift intervention from authorities. The harrowing incident occurred on November 19, 2024, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":57233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57232","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57234,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57232\/revisions\/57234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}