{"id":77262,"date":"2025-10-23T14:25:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77262"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:25:46","slug":"freennamdikanu-protest-nigeria-police-force-defends-sowores-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/freennamdikanu-protest-nigeria-police-force-defends-sowores-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"#FreeNnamdiKanu Protest: Nigeria Police Force Defends Sowore\u2019s Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Police Force has defended the arrest of activist Omoyele Sowore, saying it was to ensure fairness in prosecuting those involved in Monday\u2019s #FreeNnamdiKanu protest in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, told journalists on Thursday that Sowore, who allegedly led protesters into a restricted area, could not be exempted from prosecution while others face charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the spirit of fair play, we can\u2019t charge some and leave the leader. Sowore was arrested to ensure justice is served,\u201d Hundeyin said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Sowore would not be detained beyond legal limits and would be arraigned the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore was picked up at the Federal High Court, Abuja, where he appeared in solidarity with detained IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Nigeria Police Force has defended the arrest of activist Omoyele Sowore, saying it was to ensure fairness in prosecuting those involved in Monday\u2019s #FreeNnamdiKanu protest in Abuja. Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, told journalists on Thursday that Sowore, who allegedly led protesters into a restricted area, could not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77262","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=77262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77263,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77262\/revisions\/77263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}