{"id":78381,"date":"2025-11-08T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78381"},"modified":"2025-11-08T21:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:14:30","slug":"fg-condemns-vandalism-urges-citizens-to-protect-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/08\/fg-condemns-vandalism-urges-citizens-to-protect-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Condemns Vandalism, Urges Citizens to Protect Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has condemned acts of vandalism and misuse along the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway, urging residents to safeguard public infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of State for Works, Muhammad Bello-Goronyo, lamented reports of people damaging road sections, removing safety railings, and using highways as refuse and drying grounds, especially around the Jaji Bridge in Kaduna State.<\/p>\n<p>He also decried the activities of scavengers who steal metal components from road projects, warning that such actions amount to sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>Goronyo appealed to traditional rulers and community leaders to protect government projects and discourage vandalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Federal Government has condemned acts of vandalism and misuse along the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway, urging residents to safeguard public infrastructure. Minister of State for Works, Muhammad Bello-Goronyo, lamented reports of people damaging road sections, removing safety railings, and using highways as refuse and drying grounds, especially around the Jaji Bridge in Kaduna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78381","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=78381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78383,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78381\/revisions\/78383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}