{"id":78387,"date":"2025-11-09T04:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78387"},"modified":"2025-11-09T04:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:26:34","slug":"kebbi-deputy-speaker-regains-freedom-after-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/09\/kebbi-deputy-speaker-regains-freedom-after-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Kebbi Deputy Speaker Regains Freedom After Abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Speaker of the Kebbi State House of Assembly, Muhammad Samaila Bagudo, has regained his freedom days after being abducted by gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>Bagudo, who was kidnapped on October 31 after evening prayers, was released late Saturday and has reunited with his family in Bagudo town.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Nasir Idris, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, expressed gratitude to security agencies and community members for their efforts, confirming that the lawmaker was freed unharmed and is receiving medical care.<\/p>\n<p>While it remains unclear whether ransom was paid, sources said the release followed intense security operations and community collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The governor reiterated his administration\u2019s commitment to strengthening security and urged residents to support law enforcement with credible information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Deputy Speaker of the Kebbi State House of Assembly, Muhammad Samaila Bagudo, has regained his freedom days after being abducted by gunmen. Bagudo, who was kidnapped on October 31 after evening prayers, was released late Saturday and has reunited with his family in Bagudo town. Governor Nasir Idris, in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78387","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=78387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78389,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78387\/revisions\/78389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}