{"id":58755,"date":"2024-12-31T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58755"},"modified":"2024-12-31T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T10:51:00","slug":"police-recover-large-ammunition-cache-after-shooting-incident-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/31\/police-recover-large-ammunition-cache-after-shooting-incident-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Recover Large Ammunition Cache After Shooting Incident in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has recovered a significant cache of ammunition from a 33-year-old suspect, Obinna Nwigwe, following a shooting incident at Najob Guest House in Bwari Area Council.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58757 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG-20241231-WA0009-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG-20241231-WA0009-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG-20241231-WA0009-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG-20241231-WA0009.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson SP Josephine Adeh revealed that officers responded to a gunfire report on December 26, 2024, and discovered 29-year-old Andrew Philemon critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>Nwigwe, who shot Philemon during a heated argument, claimed he acted in self-defense and was armed with a pump-action rifle.<\/p>\n<p>A subsequent search of Nwigwe&#8217;s residence uncovered five dane guns, an English-made single-barrel gun, an AK-47 magazine with 29 rounds of ammunition, four live cartridges, 17 spent cartridges, a bow and arrows, knives, a sword stick, a toy gun, a taser, a bulletproof jacket, and multiple police uniforms and boots.<\/p>\n<p>Philemon is currently receiving treatment at the National Hospital, while Nwigwe remains in custody pending further investigation and prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has recovered a significant cache of ammunition from a 33-year-old suspect, Obinna Nwigwe, following a shooting incident at Najob Guest House in Bwari Area Council. Police spokesperson SP Josephine Adeh revealed that officers responded to a gunfire report on December 26, 2024, and discovered 29-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":58756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58755","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=58755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58758,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58755\/revisions\/58758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}