{"id":74516,"date":"2025-08-29T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74516"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:33:52","slug":"kaduna-govt-dismisses-report-on-high-kidnapping-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/29\/kaduna-govt-dismisses-report-on-high-kidnapping-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna Govt Dismisses Report on High Kidnapping Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Kaduna State Government has dismissed a report ranking the state among the highest in nationwide kidnapping cases, describing it as \u201cfalse, mischievous and irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by Commissioner-designate Malam Ahmed Maiyaki, the government faulted the report by SB Morgen, which claimed that 629 persons were abducted in the state between July 2024 and June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe publication alleging that 629 persons were abducted within the period is false and mischievous,\u201d the statement read. \u201cIt is nothing but a figment of the authors\u2019 imagination orchestrated to discredit the Kaduna Peace Model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government urged citizens to disregard the ranking, insisting it does not reflect the current security situation.<\/p>\n<p>It pointed to Governor Uba Sani\u2019s security efforts, including the recovery of over 500,000 hectares of arable land and the reopening of livestock markets in Birnin Gwari and Giwa after more than a decade of closure.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr. Suleiman Shuiabu (SAN), noted that 34 security operations conducted in April led to the arrest of 54 high-profile suspects and the rescue of more than 75 kidnap victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda &nbsp; The Kaduna State Government has dismissed a report ranking the state among the highest in nationwide kidnapping cases, describing it as \u201cfalse, mischievous and irresponsible.\u201d In a statement signed by Commissioner-designate Malam Ahmed Maiyaki, the government faulted the report by SB Morgen, which claimed that 629 persons were abducted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74516","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=74516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74518,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74516\/revisions\/74518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}