{"id":79826,"date":"2025-12-09T05:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79826"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:47:51","slug":"again-bandits-kidnap-three-family-members-in-kwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/09\/again-bandits-kidnap-three-family-members-in-kwara\/","title":{"rendered":"Again Bandits Kidnap Three Family Members in Kwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Armed bandits on Sunday abducted three members of a family in Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State as they returned from a condolence visit. The incident occurred around 7:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, Abiodun Abidemi, Abiodun Olumide, and Ayomide Moses are indigenes of Agboro community and relatives of the deceased they had gone to mourn. Local sources said the abductors were moving the hostages toward Isanlu in neighbouring Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>Residents report that Patigi has suffered repeated bandit attacks in recent months despite increased security deployments.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the state Commissioner of Police, Adekimi Ojo, said he had not been briefed on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have yet to confirm the attack or comment on possible rescue efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Armed bandits on Sunday abducted three members of a family in Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State as they returned from a condolence visit. The incident occurred around 7:00 a.m. The victims, Abiodun Abidemi, Abiodun Olumide, and Ayomide Moses are indigenes of Agboro community and relatives of the deceased they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,182,1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-defence-and-security","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79826","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=79826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79828,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79826\/revisions\/79828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}