{"id":78660,"date":"2025-11-13T15:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78660"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:26:55","slug":"nscdc-arrests-20-suspects-for-kidnapping-robbery-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/13\/nscdc-arrests-20-suspects-for-kidnapping-robbery-others\/","title":{"rendered":"NSCDC Arrests 20 Suspects for Kidnapping, Robbery, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has arrested 20 suspects for offences including kidnapping, armed robbery, terrorism, vandalism, and fraud across several states.<\/p>\n<p>NSCDC spokesman Babawale Afolabi disclosed this in Abuja, noting that the arrests were made by the Commandant General\u2019s Special Intelligence Squad between October and November on the directive of Commandant General Ahmed Audi.<\/p>\n<p>He said eight suspects were apprehended for kidnapping and murder, two for terrorism, five for trading in stolen goods, two for vandalising power installations, and three for fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Afolabi revealed that a kidnap syndicate killed two victims in Nasarawa State after collecting ransom, while one suspect confessed to involvement in attacks in Benue and Plateau States.<\/p>\n<p>Recovered items included rifles, ammunition, a stolen car, motorcycles, electronics, cash, charms, and phones.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed the corps\u2019 commitment to safeguarding lives and property in line with President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope Agenda, adding that the suspects would be charged to court after investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NSCDC Kano Command arrested two suspects, a motorcycle thief and an illegal drug dealer in Kumbotso Local Government Area following credible intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has arrested 20 suspects for offences including kidnapping, armed robbery, terrorism, vandalism, and fraud across several states. NSCDC spokesman Babawale Afolabi disclosed this in Abuja, noting that the arrests were made by the Commandant General\u2019s Special Intelligence Squad between October and November on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660","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=78660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78662,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660\/revisions\/78662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}