{"id":60994,"date":"2025-02-11T03:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T03:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60994"},"modified":"2025-02-11T03:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T03:38:30","slug":"fct-police-arrests-senior-immigration-officer-with-cache-of-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/11\/fct-police-arrests-senior-immigration-officer-with-cache-of-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Police Arrests Senior Immigration Officer with Cache of Firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the FCT Police Command have arrested a senior officer of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), in possession of high-powered firearms and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, whose identity remains undisclosed, was apprehended on Monday in the Zuma area of the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say he failed to provide a credible explanation for how he obtained the weapons or his intended destination, raising suspicions of illegal arms dealings.<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the recovered weapons included multiple AK-47 magazines, CZ Scorpion rifles, pistols, and a significant cache of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>His arrest reportedly followed an intelligence report linked to a missing person investigation.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, confirmed the arrest, stating that the suspect is currently under interrogation, with further details to be released soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye Operatives of the FCT Police Command have arrested a senior officer of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), in possession of high-powered firearms and ammunition. The officer, whose identity remains undisclosed, was apprehended on Monday in the Zuma area of the Federal Capital Territory. Authorities say he failed to provide a credible explanation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60994","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=60994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60996,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60994\/revisions\/60996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}