{"id":59563,"date":"2025-01-13T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59563"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:48:07","slug":"deadly-clash-in-ondo-leaves-community-in-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/13\/deadly-clash-in-ondo-leaves-community-in-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Clash in Ondo Leaves Community in Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A violent clash between the Owake and Ebo communities in Akoko South West, Ondo State, has left one person dead and several others injured.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict, rooted in a land dispute, escalated on Sunday night, leading to the destruction of homes and the palace of the Asin of Oka-Odo.<\/p>\n<p>The violence erupted after Owake community members installed signposts on disputed land following a court ruling in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>They were ambushed by suspected thugs from Ebo, triggering reprisals that saw properties torched.<\/p>\n<p>Ondo State Police spokesperson, Funmilayo Odunlami, confirmed the incident, stating that security forces, led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, had been deployed to restore peace.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police, Wilfred Afolabi, urged both communities to resolve their differences peacefully, warning that perpetrators would face justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu\u00a0 A violent clash between the Owake and Ebo communities in Akoko South West, Ondo State, has left one person dead and several others injured. The conflict, rooted in a land dispute, escalated on Sunday night, leading to the destruction of homes and the palace of the Asin of Oka-Odo. The violence erupted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59563","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=59563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59566,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59563\/revisions\/59566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}