{"id":71914,"date":"2025-08-03T06:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71914"},"modified":"2025-08-03T06:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:11:19","slug":"police-arrest-suspects-in-bwari-land-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/03\/police-arrest-suspects-in-bwari-land-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Suspects in Bwari Land Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has confirmed the arrest of several suspects linked to a violent outbreak on Friday in the Kuchibyi community of Bwari Area Council, triggered by a longstanding land dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers from the Byazin and Kubwa divisions responded swiftly to a distress call, promptly restoring order and preventing further escalation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Command\u2019s spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, the timely intervention helped avert what could have been a more serious crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Commissioner of Police, Ajao Adewale, condemned the attack on officers who responded to the scene, warning that assaults on security personnel will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that anyone found guilty would face the full weight of the law.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Saturday, the Command urged youths in the area to remain calm, avoid violence, and support ongoing peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The police also reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring the safety and security of all FCT residents as investigations continue to identify and prosecute those behind the disturbance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has confirmed the arrest of several suspects linked to a violent outbreak on Friday in the Kuchibyi community of Bwari Area Council, triggered by a longstanding land dispute. Police officers from the Byazin and Kubwa divisions responded swiftly to a distress call, promptly restoring order and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71914","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=71914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71915,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71914\/revisions\/71915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}