{"id":73362,"date":"2025-08-16T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73362"},"modified":"2025-08-16T10:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:48:30","slug":"kaduna-police-warn-against-violence-ahead-of-bye-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/16\/kaduna-police-warn-against-violence-ahead-of-bye-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna Police Warn Against Violence Ahead of Bye-Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Kaduna State Police Command has cautioned politicians and their supporters against disrupting Saturday\u2019s bye-elections in parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The polls will be held in Sabon Gari, Zaria, Chikun, and Kajuru Local Government Areas.<\/p>\n<p>Police warned that anyone caught fomenting trouble would be arrested and prosecuted, regardless of status.<\/p>\n<p>Command spokesperson DSP Mansir Hassan said credible intelligence indicated plans by some political actors and loyalists to cause crises during the elections.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the command would not hesitate to take decisive action, warning that such behaviour would not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan noted that \u201crobust security arrangements\u201d had been made in collaboration with other security agencies, with personnel deployed to polling units, collation centres, flashpoints, and other strategic locations.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Police urged political actors and supporters to conduct themselves responsibly, assuring voters of adequate security to freely exercise their civic rights without fear or intimidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Kaduna State Police Command has cautioned politicians and their supporters against disrupting Saturday\u2019s bye-elections in parts of the state. The polls will be held in Sabon Gari, Zaria, Chikun, and Kajuru Local Government Areas. Police warned that anyone caught fomenting trouble would be arrested and prosecuted, regardless of status. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,192,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-inec","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73362","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=73362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73364,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73362\/revisions\/73364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}