{"id":61093,"date":"2025-02-12T05:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61093"},"modified":"2025-02-12T05:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:19:04","slug":"fct-vigilantes-arrest-two-scavengers-for-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/12\/fct-vigilantes-arrest-two-scavengers-for-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Vigilantes Arrest Two Scavengers for Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two scavengers, Mas\u2019ud Bala and Ibrahim Musa, have been apprehended by vigilantes for allegedly gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in the Tipper Garage area of Gwagwalada, Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Monday around 11:23 AM when the victim, who sells soya bean cake, went to collect a debt from the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men reportedly lured her into their wooden apartment, where both assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p>According to vigilante member Usman Kabiru, screams from the girl alerted neighbors, who intervened and immediately notified the vigilantes.<\/p>\n<p>One suspect was arrested at the scene, while the second was captured the following day at Unguwar Abattoir.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s parents were informed and took her to the hospital, where medical staff confirmed the assault.<\/p>\n<p>Local police have acknowledged the incident but have referred inquiries to their headquarters for further details.<\/p>\n<p>As of the report&#8217;s filing, FCT police spokeswoman SP Josephine Adeh had not yet commented on the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent Two scavengers, Mas\u2019ud Bala and Ibrahim Musa, have been apprehended by vigilantes for allegedly gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in the Tipper Garage area of Gwagwalada, Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The incident occurred on Monday around 11:23 AM when the victim, who sells soya bean cake, went to collect a debt from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":61094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61093","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61095,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61093\/revisions\/61095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}