{"id":72218,"date":"2025-08-06T05:48:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72218"},"modified":"2025-08-06T05:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:48:48","slug":"police-hunt-kidnappers-of-ondo-varsity-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/police-hunt-kidnappers-of-ondo-varsity-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Hunt Kidnappers of Ondo Varsity Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ondo State Police Command has launched a manhunt for the kidnappers of two individuals in Supare Akoko, Akoko South-West LGA, following an abduction on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>One of the victims, Omoniyi Eleyinmi, is a staff member of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko. The second victim remains unidentified.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Eleyinmi was abducted by armed men as he arrived home from work. His wife was initially taken but managed to escape.<\/p>\n<p>A relative said no contact has been made by the kidnappers and the case has been reported to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson, SP Olayinka Ayanlade, confirmed the incident, stating that one victim has been rescued, while efforts to free Eleyinmi are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the victims were abducted while riding a motorcycle and that security operatives have been deployed for the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The university&#8217;s PRO, Victor Akinpelumi, also confirmed the incident and said the institution is cooperating with security agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Ondo State Police Command has launched a manhunt for the kidnappers of two individuals in Supare Akoko, Akoko South-West LGA, following an abduction on Monday evening. One of the victims, Omoniyi Eleyinmi, is a staff member of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko. The second victim remains unidentified. According to sources, Eleyinmi was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72218","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\/72218","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=72218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72221,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72218\/revisions\/72221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}