{"id":58967,"date":"2025-01-05T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58967"},"modified":"2025-01-05T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T18:00:25","slug":"security-agencies-arrest-abuja-highway-manhole-cover-vandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/05\/security-agencies-arrest-abuja-highway-manhole-cover-vandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Agencies Arrest Abuja Highway Manhole Cover Vandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Security agencies have arrested suspects involved in vandalizing sewage manhole covers on Abuja highways, with efforts underway to apprehend their collaborators, including buyers.<\/p>\n<p>Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant (Public Communications and New Media), to the FCT Minister, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, noting that stakeholders are working to curb the menace as directed by Minister Nyesom Wike.<\/p>\n<p>Wike condemned the act, describing it as a reckless endangerment of road users.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed that the government would take all necessary measures to bring the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister also commended the individual who recorded and shared a viral video of the crime, calling it a patriotic act that highlights the need for vigilance against public infrastructure vandalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Security agencies have arrested suspects involved in vandalizing sewage manhole covers on Abuja highways, with efforts underway to apprehend their collaborators, including buyers. Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant (Public Communications and New Media), to the FCT Minister, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, noting that stakeholders are working to curb the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58967","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=58967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58969,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58967\/revisions\/58969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}