{"id":64155,"date":"2025-04-13T02:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T02:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64155"},"modified":"2025-04-13T02:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T02:52:39","slug":"heist-onsa-escort-vehicle-vanishes-during-friday-prayers-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/13\/heist-onsa-escort-vehicle-vanishes-during-friday-prayers-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Heist: ONSA Escort Vehicle Vanishes During Friday Prayers in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an audacious breach of security, a Toyota Hilux escort vehicle assigned to the Office of the National Security Adviser has been stolen in Abuja during Friday prayers, raising serious questions about safety even within the capital\u2019s supposed security corridors.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Friday, April 11, 2025, as the official driver attended Juma\u2019at prayers at a mosque near the Abuja Municipal Area Council complex in Area 10.<\/p>\n<p>By the time worshippers concluded prayers, the government vehicle, which had been parked across from the AMAC office, had mysteriously disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Security sources revealed that the theft was reported to the Garki Police Division by 2:00 p.m., just under an hour after the vehicle went missing.<\/p>\n<p>Security analyst Zagazola Makama confirmed the timeline, noting that swift action followed with the Federal Capital Territory Police Command launching an intensive stop-and-search operation across all city checkpoints and border routes.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen vehicle, marked as part of the ONSA fleet, has ignited fresh concerns over the vulnerability of even high-security institutions and assets in Nigeria\u2019s capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Police authorities have assured the public that a thorough investigation is underway and all efforts are being deployed to recover the vehicle and bring the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n<p>As the manhunt intensifies, residents of the FCT are left to grapple with the unsettling reality that not even the nation\u2019s top security offices are immune to the rising tide of criminal audacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo In an audacious breach of security, a Toyota Hilux escort vehicle assigned to the Office of the National Security Adviser has been stolen in Abuja during Friday prayers, raising serious questions about safety even within the capital\u2019s supposed security corridors. The incident occurred on Friday, April 11, 2025, as the official driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64155","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\/64155","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=64155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64157,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64155\/revisions\/64157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}