{"id":62084,"date":"2025-03-04T03:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62084"},"modified":"2025-03-05T04:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:32:43","slug":"abuja-abducted-police-chief-regains-freedom-hours-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/04\/abuja-abducted-police-chief-regains-freedom-hours-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja: Abducted Police Chief Regains Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has rescued Chief Superintendent of Police Modestus Ojiebe, who was abducted on the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway after his vehicle broke down near Dei-Dei Police Barracks.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen attacked Ojiebe and his wife, robbing them of their phones and ATM cards. Upon discovering his police ID, the kidnappers took him away, leaving his wife behind.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Josephine Adeh confirmed Ojiebe\u2019s rescue, crediting the swift response of Dawaki Divisional Police Officer and his team, who mobilized checkpoints and patrol units across the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was freed the same night, while the kidnappers fled into the bushes in Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Police Commissioner Olatunji Disu has urged residents to report suspicious activities via the emergency line 08032003913 as efforts to track down the criminals continue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has rescued Chief Superintendent of Police Modestus Ojiebe, who was abducted on the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway after his vehicle broke down near Dei-Dei Police Barracks. Gunmen attacked Ojiebe and his wife, robbing them of their phones and ATM cards. Upon discovering his police ID, the kidnappers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62084","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\/62084","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=62084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62143,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62084\/revisions\/62143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}