{"id":79995,"date":"2025-12-10T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79995"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:33:21","slug":"fct-police-arrest-man-over-ammo-supply-to-zamfara-bandits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/10\/fct-police-arrest-man-over-ammo-supply-to-zamfara-bandits\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Police Arrest Man Over Ammo Supply to Zamfara Bandits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested 32-year-old Ahmed Abubakar for allegedly attempting to procure ammunition for bandits in Zamfara State.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar, a Gusau native residing in Gwagwalada, Abuja, was arrested on Saturday, December 7, following intelligence that he contacted a serving Army corporal to secure 1,000 rounds of ammo in exchange for payment.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations revealed he acted on instructions from his uncle, Ahmed Yakubu, who fled before the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Police recovered N170,100 believed meant for the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar remains in custody as authorities intensify efforts to apprehend his accomplice.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Police reaffirmed their commitment to disrupting arms supply to criminal groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested 32-year-old Ahmed Abubakar for allegedly attempting to procure ammunition for bandits in Zamfara State. Abubakar, a Gusau native residing in Gwagwalada, Abuja, was arrested on Saturday, December 7, following intelligence that he contacted a serving Army corporal to secure 1,000 rounds of ammo in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995","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=79995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79997,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995\/revisions\/79997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}