{"id":63455,"date":"2025-03-28T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63455"},"modified":"2025-03-29T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:00:13","slug":"vigilante-operatives-arrest-suspected-robbers-on-abuja-flyover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/28\/vigilante-operatives-arrest-suspected-robbers-on-abuja-flyover\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigilante Operatives Arrest Abuja Flyover Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria have apprehended two suspected robbers who specialize in attacking commercial tricycle operators and passengers on flyover bridges in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Commander of the vigilante unit in Abuja Municipal Area Council, John Samuel, confirmed the arrest on Thursday, stating that the suspects, Muhammad Abubakar and Misbahu Abubakar, were caught on Nyanya Bridge on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The duo allegedly robbed a tricycle operator of N20,000 before attempting to escape.<\/p>\n<p>However, the victim raised an alarm, prompting vigilante officers on patrol to pursue and arrest them.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel disclosed that the stolen money was recovered and returned to the owner.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were later transferred to the Nyanya Police Division for further investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria have apprehended two suspected robbers who specialize in attacking commercial tricycle operators and passengers on flyover bridges in Abuja. Commander of the vigilante unit in Abuja Municipal Area Council, John Samuel, confirmed the arrest on Thursday, stating that the suspects, Muhammad Abubakar and Misbahu Abubakar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63455","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\/63455","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=63455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63488,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63455\/revisions\/63488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}