{"id":70957,"date":"2025-07-18T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70957"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:23:53","slug":"abuja-3-year-old-boy-dies-in-soakaway-caretaker-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/18\/abuja-3-year-old-boy-dies-in-soakaway-caretaker-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja: 3-Year-Old Boy Dies in Soakaway, Caretaker Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rofiat Olokuta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A 3-year-old boy has died after falling into an open soakaway pit in the Al-Huda community of Jahi District, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which occurred around midday, sparked outrage among residents, who blamed negligence for the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The toddler was reportedly playing near the pit, which had been left uncovered for weeks, when he slipped and fell in.<\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested a man believed to be the compound&#8217;s caretaker in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, confirmed the arrest and said an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Residents called for stricter enforcement of safety regulations to prevent similar tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s body has been recovered and deposited in the morgue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rofiat Olokuta &nbsp; A 3-year-old boy has died after falling into an open soakaway pit in the Al-Huda community of Jahi District, Abuja. The incident, which occurred around midday, sparked outrage among residents, who blamed negligence for the tragedy. The toddler was reportedly playing near the pit, which had been left uncovered for weeks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70957","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\/70957","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=70957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70959,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70957\/revisions\/70959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}