{"id":78447,"date":"2025-11-10T05:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78447"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:13:27","slug":"vigilante-accidentally-shoots-self-at-tinubu-estate-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/10\/vigilante-accidentally-shoots-self-at-tinubu-estate-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigilante Accidentally Shoots Self at Tinubu Estate Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A vigilante officer, Rabiu Usman, accidentally shot himself while on duty at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Estate construction site in Karsana, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 9 p.m. on Saturday after Usman and his team repelled robbers who attempted to steal iron rods. While trying to sling his rifle, he reportedly forgot to secure the safety lock, causing the gun to discharge and injure his leg.<\/p>\n<p>Usman, who spoke from Kubwa General Hospital, said the weapon \u201cstarted releasing bullets onto my leg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was later referred to the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Police in the area said the case had not been officially reported as of press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola A vigilante officer, Rabiu Usman, accidentally shot himself while on duty at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Estate construction site in Karsana, Abuja. The incident occurred around 9 p.m. on Saturday after Usman and his team repelled robbers who attempted to steal iron rods. While trying to sling his rifle, he reportedly forgot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78447","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=78447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78449,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78447\/revisions\/78449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}