{"id":79021,"date":"2025-11-20T09:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79021"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:35:17","slug":"again-four-rice-farmers-abducted-in-kwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/20\/again-four-rice-farmers-abducted-in-kwara\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, Four Rice Farmers Abducted in Kwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado<\/p>\n<p>Terrorists abducted four rice farmers in Bokungi Village, Edu LGA, Kwara State, on Wednesday evening, local sources confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were attacked while harvesting rice, less than 24 hours after gunmen targeted a church in Eruku, Ekiti LGA.<\/p>\n<p>Residents said the armed men forced the farmers into nearby bush before moving them to an unknown location.<\/p>\n<p>Community members warned that growing insecurity is driving farming settlements to near desertion, as farmers avoid working in vulnerable areas.<\/p>\n<p>The Kwara State Police Command has yet to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Terrorists abducted four rice farmers in Bokungi Village, Edu LGA, Kwara State, on Wednesday evening, local sources confirmed. The victims were attacked while harvesting rice, less than 24 hours after gunmen targeted a church in Eruku, Ekiti LGA. Residents said the armed men forced the farmers into nearby bush before moving them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":79022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79021","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79023,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79021\/revisions\/79023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}