{"id":73568,"date":"2025-08-19T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73568"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:40:55","slug":"police-nabs-two-over-construction-site-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/19\/police-nabs-two-over-construction-site-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Nabs Two Over Construction Site Vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Niger State Police Command has arrested two suspects for allegedly vandalizing iron materials at a construction site in Minna.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest, confirmed on Tuesday, followed reports that the suspects tampered with materials meant for ongoing projects in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Police authorities said investigations are underway to ascertain the extent of the damage and uncover the suspects\u2019 motives.<\/p>\n<p>Although their identities were not disclosed, the command assured that the suspects would be charged in court once investigations are completed.<\/p>\n<p>The case highlights rising incidents of theft and vandalism targeting public and private infrastructure in the state, sparking renewed calls for tighter security at construction sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Niger State Police Command has arrested two suspects for allegedly vandalizing iron materials at a construction site in Minna. The arrest, confirmed on Tuesday, followed reports that the suspects tampered with materials meant for ongoing projects in the area. Police authorities said investigations are underway to ascertain the extent of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73568","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=73568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73569,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73568\/revisions\/73569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}