{"id":76068,"date":"2025-10-04T23:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76068"},"modified":"2025-10-04T23:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:38:58","slug":"youths-attack-ondo-monarch-strip-wife-assault-son-during-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/04\/youths-attack-ondo-monarch-strip-wife-assault-son-during-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Youths Attack Ondo Monarch, Strip Wife, Assault Son During Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tension gripped Idogun community in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State on Friday as irate youths allegedly attacked the Onidogun of Idogun, Oba Moses Bakare, his wife, and their son, Prince Victor Bakare, during the celebration of the New Yam Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly occurred at Ishara Quarters, where Prince Victor had gone to join his parents for the annual cultural event.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with journalists at the palace after the attack, the prince, who sustained visible injuries alleged that the youths assaulted him, poured urine and other filthy substances on him, and stripped his mother half-naked.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that his father, the monarch, was physically attacked during the chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Oba Bakare condemned the incident, describing it as part of a pattern of \u201cunprovoked hostility\u201d from a faction of the community\u2019s youths.<\/p>\n<p>He called the attack \u201cbarbaric and unfortunate,\u201d while commending the timely intervention of the police and Amotekun Corps, which he said prevented the violence from escalating.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, the Amotekun Coordinator, Mr. Omatayo Johnson, said the swift response of security operatives averted a full-blown crisis in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Ondo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ayanlade Olayinka Olushola, confirmed that the case is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe case is under investigation, and we are leaving no stone unturned to ensure that justice is served,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of filing this report, no arrests have been made, but tension remains high in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Tension gripped Idogun community in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State on Friday as irate youths allegedly attacked the Onidogun of Idogun, Oba Moses Bakare, his wife, and their son, Prince Victor Bakare, during the celebration of the New Yam Festival. The incident reportedly occurred at Ishara Quarters, where Prince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068","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=76068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76070,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068\/revisions\/76070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}