{"id":58161,"date":"2024-12-17T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58161"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:44:41","slug":"edo-state-government-issues-72-hour-deadline-for-return-of-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/17\/edo-state-government-issues-72-hour-deadline-for-return-of-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo State Government Issues 72-Hour Deadline for Return of Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Edo State Government has given Asue Ighodalo, the PDP candidate in the recent gubernatorial election, and other affiliates a 72-hour ultimatum to return government vehicles currently in their possession.<br \/>\nThis directive was issued by Kelly Okungbowa, Chairman of the newly formed Government Assets Recovery Committee, under Governor Monday Okpebholo.<br \/>\nThe committee aims to reclaim assets improperly held by individuals, including vehicles once owned by the now-defunct Edo Line transport company.<br \/>\nOkungbowa revealed that some of these vehicles were allegedly sold and found in a Benin City spare parts market.<br \/>\nOkungbowa emphasized that the vehicles are state property and urged their return, citing the high cost of replacing them\u2014up to N120 million for a new Toyota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Edo State Government has given Asue Ighodalo, the PDP candidate in the recent gubernatorial election, and other affiliates a 72-hour ultimatum to return government vehicles currently in their possession. This directive was issued by Kelly Okungbowa, Chairman of the newly formed Government Assets Recovery Committee, under Governor Monday Okpebholo. The committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58161","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\/58161","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=58161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58163,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58161\/revisions\/58163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}