{"id":61051,"date":"2025-02-11T14:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61051"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:09:59","slug":"enugu-police-deny-torture-claims-in-medicine-dealers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/11\/enugu-police-deny-torture-claims-in-medicine-dealers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Enugu Police Deny Torture Claims in Medicine Dealer\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Enugu State Police Command has denied allegations that officers tortured Nnaemeka Ugwu, a patent medicine dealer, leading to his death at the Nsukka Area Command.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, police said Ugwu collapsed while trying to secure his wife\u2019s release from detention and was rushed to a hospital, where he was confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>Family members had accused the police of harassment and torture, citing a viral video, but police spokesperson SP Daniel Ndukwe dismissed the claims as misleading, insisting Ugwu was neither arrested nor tortured.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Police, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, has ordered an investigation into the incident while urging the public to remain calm and follow proper channels for grievances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi The Enugu State Police Command has denied allegations that officers tortured Nnaemeka Ugwu, a patent medicine dealer, leading to his death at the Nsukka Area Command. In a statement on Tuesday, police said Ugwu collapsed while trying to secure his wife\u2019s release from detention and was rushed to a hospital, where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61051","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\/61051","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61053,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61051\/revisions\/61053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}