{"id":63371,"date":"2025-03-26T21:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63371"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:29:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:29:29","slug":"clash-erupts-in-abuja-as-taskforce-allegedly-kills-okada-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/26\/clash-erupts-in-abuja-as-taskforce-allegedly-kills-okada-rider\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubwa Boils as Okada Riders Battle Taskforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chaos broke out along the Kubwa Expressway in Abuja on Wednesday as an angry mob barricaded the road following the alleged killing of a commercial motorcyclist by the Federal Capital Territory taskforce.<\/p>\n<p>The violent clash started at Galadima and spread from EFAB bridge to the Public Service Institute, Dutsen Alhaji, forcing many motorists to seek alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the enraged protesters set up bonfires on the expressway, leading to a partial shutdown of traffic. In response, police officers fired tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the tension, a policeman attempting to escape the scene was intercepted near the Charley Boy area and severely beaten, though the driver of the vehicle managed to flee.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, confirmed the incident, stating that one person was reportedly killed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The incident happened between the taskforce and Okada riders. One person is said to have been killed, and we are investigating to confirm the details,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>On reports that a police officer was killed in the clash, she dismissed the claims, urging the public to disregard such reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Chaos broke out along the Kubwa Expressway in Abuja on Wednesday as an angry mob barricaded the road following the alleged killing of a commercial motorcyclist by the Federal Capital Territory taskforce. The violent clash started at Galadima and spread from EFAB bridge to the Public Service Institute, Dutsen Alhaji, forcing many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63371","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\/63371","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=63371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63382,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63371\/revisions\/63382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}