{"id":68568,"date":"2025-06-19T14:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68568"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:14:07","slug":"gwagwalada-residents-nab-motorcycle-thief-during-early-morning-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/19\/gwagwalada-residents-nab-motorcycle-thief-during-early-morning-heist\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwagwalada Residents Nab Motorcycle Thief During Early Morning Heist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Unguwar Azzara in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT have apprehended one Rabiu Alhassan for allegedly attempting to steal a motorcycle after scaling a neighbour\u2019s fence.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 5:12 a.m. on Thursday when the motorcycle\u2019s owner, Sayyadi, had gone to the mosque for Subhi prayers.<\/p>\n<p>A woman in the compound, who came out to prepare food, spotted the intruder and raised the alarm.<\/p>\n<p>Trapped inside the compound by the locked gate, the suspect was restrained by tenants until Sayyadi returned and handed him over to local vigilantes.<\/p>\n<p>According to residents, Alhassan is notorious in the area and has previously been arrested for similar offences, including breaking into homes and a mosque to steal motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>A vigilante member, Yakubu Musa, confirmed that the suspect had been detained multiple times but was often released shortly after, only to strike again.<\/p>\n<p>The police in the area said the incident was not formally reported at the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; Residents of Unguwar Azzara in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT have apprehended one Rabiu Alhassan for allegedly attempting to steal a motorcycle after scaling a neighbour\u2019s fence. The incident occurred around 5:12 a.m. on Thursday when the motorcycle\u2019s owner, Sayyadi, had gone to the mosque for Subhi prayers. A woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68568","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68569,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68568\/revisions\/68569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}