{"id":63019,"date":"2025-03-19T12:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63019"},"modified":"2025-03-19T12:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:33:57","slug":"worshippers-foil-motorcycle-theft-in-abuja-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/19\/worshippers-foil-motorcycle-theft-in-abuja-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Worshippers Foil Motorcycle Theft in Abuja Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A suspected thief met his downfall in dramatic fashion when worshippers at a mosque in the Dutsen Alhaji community of the Federal Capital Territory caught him attempting to steal a motorcycle during Ramadan prayers.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as Haruna Sani, reportedly traveled from Nyanya Gwandara and joined the congregational Taraweeh prayer.<\/p>\n<p>However, he abruptly ended his prayers and attempted to escape with a parked motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi Bello, one of the worshippers, recounted the moment the bike owner noticed the theft and quickly pursued the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe terminated his prayer and ran after the man, managing to jump onto the moving motorcycle. Both of them fell, and other worshippers rushed to apprehend him,\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n<p>A local vigilante confirmed that the suspect was taken to the district head\u2019s palace, where the police were alerted.<\/p>\n<p>The police later took custody of the suspect while the stolen motorcycle was returned to its rightful owner.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have confirmed the incident, urging residents to remain vigilant during the Ramadan period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A suspected thief met his downfall in dramatic fashion when worshippers at a mosque in the Dutsen Alhaji community of the Federal Capital Territory caught him attempting to steal a motorcycle during Ramadan prayers. The suspect, identified as Haruna Sani, reportedly traveled from Nyanya Gwandara and joined the congregational Taraweeh prayer. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63019","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\/63019","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=63019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63021,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63019\/revisions\/63021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}