{"id":77799,"date":"2025-10-30T15:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77799"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:47:22","slug":"teenager-killed-in-ndlea-edo-clash-police-launch-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/30\/teenager-killed-in-ndlea-edo-clash-police-launch-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager Killed in NDLEA-Edo Clash, Police Launch Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Edo State Police Command has launched an investigation into the death of a 16-year-old boy, Emmanuel George, allegedly killed during a clash between NDLEA operatives and suspected drug dealers in Okpuje, Owan West Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the incident occurred during an anti-drug operation, leaving George dead and two others injured. Residents accused NDLEA operatives of shooting the teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Police PRO, ASP Eno Ikoedem, confirmed that Commissioner of Police, CP Monday Agbonika, visited the community to console the bereaved family and ordered an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged residents to remain calm as the case is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>NDLEA State Commander, Mitchell Ofoyeju, denied deliberate involvement, stating that officers acted in self-defence after being attacked by suspected drug barons.<\/p>\n<p>Police said updates would be provided as investigations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Edo State Police Command has launched an investigation into the death of a 16-year-old boy, Emmanuel George, allegedly killed during a clash between NDLEA operatives and suspected drug dealers in Okpuje, Owan West Local Government Area. Police said the incident occurred during an anti-drug operation, leaving George dead and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77799","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\/77799","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=77799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77801,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77799\/revisions\/77801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}