{"id":69746,"date":"2025-07-05T06:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69746"},"modified":"2025-07-05T06:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:50:27","slug":"six-arrested-over-murder-at-fct-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/05\/six-arrested-over-murder-at-fct-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Arrested Over Murder at FCT Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has arrested six suspects in connection with the killing of a man at Gosa Market along the Abuja Airport Road.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was accused of stealing yam tubers before being lynched; a development that triggered panic among traders, shoppers, and residents.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Commissioner of Police, Adewale Ajao, confirmed the arrests during a press briefing, describing the case as a clear act of murder.<\/p>\n<p>He said police officers responded swiftly to restore peace and prevent further escalation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immediately after the incident, we engaged the community leader. The traditional ruler was also with us. We discussed what happened, and they saw the need to embrace peace,&#8221; Ajao said.<\/p>\n<p>The market has since resumed full operations under heightened security, with police personnel deployed to maintain order.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner assured residents of continued efforts to enhance community engagement, intelligence-led policing, and public awareness to counter emerging security threats.<\/p>\n<p>Ajao also highlighted other recent achievements by the command, including the arrest of 82 criminal suspects, 17 suspected kidnappers, and the recovery of 21 vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Police also foiled several kidnap and robbery attempts, rescued three children from traffickers, and provided support to 10 rape victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has arrested six suspects in connection with the killing of a man at Gosa Market along the Abuja Airport Road. The victim was accused of stealing yam tubers before being lynched; a development that triggered panic among traders, shoppers, and residents. FCT Commissioner of Police, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":69747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-69746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69746","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=69746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69748,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69746\/revisions\/69748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}