{"id":62845,"date":"2025-03-16T13:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62845"},"modified":"2025-03-16T13:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T13:18:01","slug":"army-nabs-notorious-kidnappers-in-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/16\/army-nabs-notorious-kidnappers-in-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Nabs Notorious Kidnappers in Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Emmanuel Ogbodo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Army has captured two notorious kidnappers, Bashir Mohammed and Ismail Mohammad, during a raid in Plateau State.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were arrested on Saturday at a known kidnappers&#8217; hideout in Bassa Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on intelligence, troops stormed the Katume High Grounds where criminals allegedly kept hostages while negotiating ransoms.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers recovered an AK-47 rifle and a loaded magazine during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The arrested suspects are now assisting in efforts to track down other gang members and recover more weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The Army described the operation as a major success in the fight against insecurity in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Ogbodo The Nigerian Army has captured two notorious kidnappers, Bashir Mohammed and Ismail Mohammad, during a raid in Plateau State. The suspects were arrested on Saturday at a known kidnappers&#8217; hideout in Bassa Local Government Area. Acting on intelligence, troops stormed the Katume High Grounds where criminals allegedly kept hostages while negotiating ransoms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62845","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\/62845","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=62845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62847,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62845\/revisions\/62847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}