{"id":60011,"date":"2025-01-27T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60011"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:19:54","slug":"gunmen-kidnap-family-two-others-in-abuja-community-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/27\/gunmen-kidnap-family-two-others-in-abuja-community-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Kidnap Family, 2 Others in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gunmen, numbering over 20, attacked Chikakore community in Kubwa, Abuja, on Sunday night, abducting five residents, including a family of three.<\/p>\n<p>The assailants, armed with guns, stormed the Health Centre extension area around 11 p.m., forcefully entering homes. Among those kidnapped were Adesiyan Akinropo, his wife, son, and a visitor, along with a neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>A woman sustained a head injury after being struck with a gun butt and was rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Residents criticized the delayed response of police operatives, who reportedly arrived an hour and a half after the attackers escaped.<\/p>\n<p>Community leaders and the police have scheduled a meeting to address the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Chikakore community, which lacks a dedicated police division despite offering land and facilities for one, has seen increased criminal activities, including a January explosion linked to fleeing bandits from Katsina State.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach FCT police spokesperson Josephine Adeh for comment were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Gunmen, numbering over 20, attacked Chikakore community in Kubwa, Abuja, on Sunday night, abducting five residents, including a family of three. The assailants, armed with guns, stormed the Health Centre extension area around 11 p.m., forcefully entering homes. Among those kidnapped were Adesiyan Akinropo, his wife, son, and a visitor, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60011","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=60011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60062,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60011\/revisions\/60062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}