{"id":58498,"date":"2024-12-26T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58498"},"modified":"2024-12-26T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T18:02:45","slug":"kogi-police-arrests-man-for-robbery-attempted-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/26\/kogi-police-arrests-man-for-robbery-attempted-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Police Arrests Man for Robbery, Attempted Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kogi State Police Command has arrested Abdulmuqeet Musari for allegedly luring his 19-year-old friend, Usman Tijani, to a burial ground in Adavi Local Government Area, robbing him of \u20a6200,000, and slitting his throat.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on December 24, 2024. Tijani, a Point-of-Sale operator and a second-year Cybersecurity student at Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, was found critically injured and is undergoing surgery in Lokoja.<\/p>\n<p>Zainab Avosuahu, a relative, revealed that Musari lured Tijani into the bush, stole his money, and attempted to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a call for justice for my nephew, who was betrayed and nearly killed by his friend,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Musari fled the scene but was later apprehended in a neighboring community in Ekiti State by local vigilantes and security operatives.<\/p>\n<p>Suleiman Acheneje, Senior Special Assistant to the Adavi LG Chairman, praised the swift action of the security forces, stating, &#8220;The suspect was tracked and arrested thanks to coordinated intelligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kogi Police Public Relations Officer, Williams Aya, confirmed Musari\u2019s arrest and stated that he remains in custody pending arraignment after the conclusion of investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu The Kogi State Police Command has arrested Abdulmuqeet Musari for allegedly luring his 19-year-old friend, Usman Tijani, to a burial ground in Adavi Local Government Area, robbing him of \u20a6200,000, and slitting his throat. The incident occurred on December 24, 2024. Tijani, a Point-of-Sale operator and a second-year Cybersecurity student at Confluence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58498","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58500,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58498\/revisions\/58500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}