{"id":60035,"date":"2025-01-27T13:41:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60035"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:41:55","slug":"police-planning-to-detain-me-says-sowore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/27\/police-planning-to-detain-me-says-sowore\/","title":{"rendered":"Police planning to detain me, says Sowore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore raised alarm on January 27, 2025, claiming the Nigeria Police Force may be planning his detention due to his outspoken criticism of the extension of Inspector-General of Police Kayode Egbetokun&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore arrived at the Force Intelligence Headquarters in Abuja, responding to a police invitation following his viral video accusing officers of extorting money from motorists in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>During questioning, Sowore was faced with multiple allegations, including resisting public officers and cyberstalking.<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the police for relying on vague, online-sourced information and declined to provide a written statement, challenging their lack of clarity on the alleged offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore expressed concerns about being detained and transported to Lagos for a &#8220;kangaroo trial,&#8221; but reiterated his commitment to justice and advocacy under #RevolutionNow, despite the ongoing challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal\u00a0 Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore raised alarm on January 27, 2025, claiming the Nigeria Police Force may be planning his detention due to his outspoken criticism of the extension of Inspector-General of Police Kayode Egbetokun&#8217;s tenure. Sowore arrived at the Force Intelligence Headquarters in Abuja, responding to a police invitation following his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60035","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\/60035","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=60035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60037,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60035\/revisions\/60037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}