{"id":60071,"date":"2025-01-28T13:25:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60071"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:25:42","slug":"police-arrest-activist-ahead-of-anti-extortion-protest-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/28\/police-arrest-activist-ahead-of-anti-extortion-protest-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Activist Ahead of Anti-Extortion Protest in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Henry Nwodo, an activist and organizer of the planned #EndPoliceExtortion protest, was arrested by Nigeria Police operatives in the Jahi 2 area of Abuja on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to Femi Adeyeye, spokesperson of the African Action Congress (AAC), Nwodo is being held without access to legal counsel or communication.<\/p>\n<p>The protest, set for Monday, January 27, 2024, was in response to the police&#8217;s invitation to Omoyele Sowore, AAC\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, for questioning over alleged cyberstalking and intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore, accompanied by his lawyers, appeared at the force headquarters on Monday as scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; Henry Nwodo, an activist and organizer of the planned #EndPoliceExtortion protest, was arrested by Nigeria Police operatives in the Jahi 2 area of Abuja on Sunday evening. According to Femi Adeyeye, spokesperson of the African Action Congress (AAC), Nwodo is being held without access to legal counsel or communication. The protest, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":60072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60071","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\/60071","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60073,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60071\/revisions\/60073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}