{"id":75444,"date":"2025-09-12T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75444"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:55:54","slug":"fct-vigilantes-apprehend-phone-snatcher-in-gwagwalada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/12\/fct-vigilantes-apprehend-phone-snatcher-in-gwagwalada\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Vigilantes Apprehend Phone Snatcher in Gwagwalada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vigilantes in Unguwar Dodo, Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have arrested a suspected phone snatcher, identified as Kabiru Adamu, while attempting to rob a resident, Aliyu Musa.<\/p>\n<p>According to Zakari Yakubu, a member of the vigilante group, the incident occurred as the victim was returning home after picking up his phone from a charging shop. Adamu allegedly trailed him, pulled a knife, and threatened to stab him if he refused to surrender the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Yakubu said the suspect began struggling with the victim but fled on sighting the vigilantes. \u201cWe chased him down and arrested him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect reportedly confessed to snatching phones in the community and has since been handed over to security operatives.<\/p>\n<p>A police source at Gwagwalada Division confirmed the arrest, adding that Adamu would be charged to court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; Vigilantes in Unguwar Dodo, Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have arrested a suspected phone snatcher, identified as Kabiru Adamu, while attempting to rob a resident, Aliyu Musa. According to Zakari Yakubu, a member of the vigilante group, the incident occurred as the victim was returning home after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75444","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\/75444","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=75444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75446,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75444\/revisions\/75446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}