{"id":72235,"date":"2025-08-06T06:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72235"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:20:54","slug":"police-debunk-alleged-mass-rape-at-federal-university-lafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/police-debunk-alleged-mass-rape-at-federal-university-lafia\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Debunk Alleged Mass Rape at Federal University Lafia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nasarawa State Police Command has refuted claims that over 30 female students of the Federal University of Lafia were raped during a recent attack by suspected bandits.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, the Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel, described the report as false and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>He said police investigations found no evidence to support the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat report is false. Our findings show that the story about over 30 female students being raped by bandits is not true,\u201d Nansel said.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that the police contacted the university\u2019s Chief Security Officer, the institution\u2019s information officer, and several students, none of whom confirmed any case of rape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spoke with the CSO and the school\u2019s information officer, both said there was no such report. We also interviewed some students, and they denied the incident. If something like that happened, the students would have spoken out,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Nansel confirmed that a robbery incident occurred on July 27 in the student village area, during which a phone, power bank, and handbag were stolen from a student identified as Jennifer. A male student also sustained injuries while fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no report of rape, only a robbery. If such a heinous act had occurred, we wouldn\u2019t cover it up. We are not the cause,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Nasarawa State Police Command has refuted claims that over 30 female students of the Federal University of Lafia were raped during a recent attack by suspected bandits. In a statement on Tuesday, the Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel, described the report as false and misleading. He said police investigations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72235","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=72235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72237,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72235\/revisions\/72237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}