{"id":59366,"date":"2025-01-10T13:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59366"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:10:26","slug":"fct-farm-two-yam-thieves-receive-25-lashes-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/10\/fct-farm-two-yam-thieves-receive-25-lashes-each\/","title":{"rendered":"Two person receive 25 lashes for stealing 25 tubers of yam in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two suspected yam thieves were caught red-handed early Thursday morning at a farm in Dogon Ruwa village, Gawu ward, Abaji Area Council, FCT.<\/p>\n<p>The thieves, who had stolen 25 yam tubers, were caught as they attempted to escape with the goods on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>The farm owner, Shehu Salihu, along with his children, confronted the suspects just as they tried to flee.<\/p>\n<p>A mob quickly gathered, stripping the thieves half-naked and beating them with sticks and cables.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were then paraded through the community before being taken to the village chief.<\/p>\n<p>In a swift decision, the chief ordered the thieves to receive 25 lashes each before being released.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT police had not confirmed the incident at the time of reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0 Two suspected yam thieves were caught red-handed early Thursday morning at a farm in Dogon Ruwa village, Gawu ward, Abaji Area Council, FCT. The thieves, who had stolen 25 yam tubers, were caught as they attempted to escape with the goods on a motorcycle. The farm owner, Shehu Salihu, along with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59366","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=59366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59382,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59366\/revisions\/59382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}