{"id":79141,"date":"2025-11-21T15:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79141"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:02:54","slug":"police-arrest-25-year-old-suspected-secessionist-in-anambra-recover-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/21\/police-arrest-25-year-old-suspected-secessionist-in-anambra-recover-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest 25-Year-Old Suspected Secessionist in Anambra, Recover Firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old suspected member of a proscribed secessionist group, Friday Nnamdi Anyikame, during an intelligence-led operation in Ihiala LGA.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson SP Tochukwu Ikenga said operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, Awkuzu, apprehended the suspect on November 20, 2025, recovering two pump-action guns and 29 live cartridges.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations revealed he allegedly belongs to an armed faction operating from a criminal camp in Ogbaru LGA.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police Ikioye Orutugu has ordered intensified raids across the state, describing the arrest as a major step toward dismantling armed networks responsible for insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>The command urged residents to remain vigilant and provide timely information.<\/p>\n<p>This latest arrest follows earlier breakthroughs, including the October detention of a 62-year-old alleged informant accused of extorting traders and funnelling proceeds to a terrorist camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old suspected member of a proscribed secessionist group, Friday Nnamdi Anyikame, during an intelligence-led operation in Ihiala LGA. Police spokesperson SP Tochukwu Ikenga said operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, Awkuzu, apprehended the suspect on November 20, 2025, recovering two pump-action guns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79141","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\/79141","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79143,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79141\/revisions\/79143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}