{"id":71243,"date":"2025-07-22T21:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71243"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:25:13","slug":"ndlea-officer-killed-in-ondo-drug-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/22\/ndlea-officer-killed-in-ondo-drug-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA Officer Killed in Ondo Drug Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operative has been shot dead during a raid in the Ita\u2019nla area of Ondo town, Ondo State.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, identified as Jide, was part of a team deployed for a sting operation on Tuesday following a tip-off about illicit drugs allegedly hidden in the ceiling of a residential apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said while some officers entered the building to retrieve the suspected drugs, Officer Jide remained outside to provide security. Armed men believed to be linked to the drug operation suddenly opened fire, fatally striking him in the neck.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to the hospital but was confirmed dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Ondo State Police Command, SP Olayinka Ayanlade, said four suspects had been arrested and a single-barrel firearm recovered. \u201cImmediately it happened, we reinforced our men to the scene. The suspects are now in custody, and investigation is ongoing in collaboration with the NDLEA to bring all those behind the killing to book,\u201d Ayanlade said.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to reach NDLEA spokesperson Adebayo Solomon for official comment were unsuccessful as of press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; A National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operative has been shot dead during a raid in the Ita\u2019nla area of Ondo town, Ondo State. The officer, identified as Jide, was part of a team deployed for a sting operation on Tuesday following a tip-off about illicit drugs allegedly hidden in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71243","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=71243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71245,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71243\/revisions\/71245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}