{"id":76671,"date":"2025-10-14T14:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76671"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:28:54","slug":"fct-police-foil-kidnap-attempt-in-byazhin-recover-ak-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/14\/fct-police-foil-kidnap-attempt-in-byazhin-recover-ak-47\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Police Foil Kidnap Attempt in Byazhin, Recover AK-47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has foiled a planned kidnap attempt by suspected bandits in the Byazhin Forest area of Abuja, recovering an AK-47 rifle and live ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, said the operation was conducted by the Command\u2019s Anti-Kidnapping Unit following credible intelligence that a notorious bandit leader, Idrisa, alias Mai Duna, was plotting coordinated attacks on nearby villages.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on the tip-off, police operatives ambushed the suspects on October 10, leading to a gun battle that lasted about 20 minutes. The criminals were subdued and fled into the forest with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Recovered items include an AK-47 rifle with a defaced serial number, one magazine, and 30 rounds of live ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Commissioner of Police commended the operatives for their bravery, describing the operation as a major success in averting a security breach in the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has foiled a planned kidnap attempt by suspected bandits in the Byazhin Forest area of Abuja, recovering an AK-47 rifle and live ammunition. In a statement on Tuesday, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, said the operation was conducted by the Command\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76671","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=76671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76674,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76671\/revisions\/76674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}