{"id":584,"date":"2023-05-12T10:32:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T10:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=584"},"modified":"2023-07-17T10:33:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T10:33:22","slug":"alleged-assault-igp-orders-arrest-of-seun-kuti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/05\/12\/alleged-assault-igp-orders-arrest-of-seun-kuti\/","title":{"rendered":"ALLEGED ASSAULT: IGP ORDERS ARREST OF SEUN KUTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the Lagos State Commissioner of Police to arrest Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti.<\/p>\n<p>The directive to arrest the singer followed a video where he was captured assaulting a police officer in uniform.<\/p>\n<p>CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer in a statement Saturday evening said the IGP has equally ordered a speedy and full investigation into the remote and immediate cause(s) of the assault.<\/p>\n<p>The Police chief also ordered prosecution of the suspect accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>IGP Baba assures Nigerians that acts of contempt\/disdain for symbols of authority will not be tolerated while offenders of such hideous crimes will be surely brought to book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the Lagos State Commissioner of Police to arrest Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti. The directive to arrest the singer followed a video where he was captured assaulting a police officer in uniform. CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer in a statement Saturday evening said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}