{"id":168253,"date":"2025-07-03T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:52:50","slug":"police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom","title":{"rendered":"Police recover stolen vehicle in Akwa Ibom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it has recovered a stolen Toyota Matrix vehicle with registration number KRJ 944 in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The command\u2019s spokesperson, DSP Timfon John, disclosed this in a press statement issued on Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesperson said operatives of the command, working along the Ikot Ekpene\u2013Umuahia road, in collaboration with a Joint Task Force patrol team, on Monday, June 30, 2025, at about 4 pm, intercepted the said vehicle. She said the driver, who was unknown to the team, claimed to be a Naval officer when stopped.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that upon interrogation, the suspect could not provide satisfactory identification or documentation to support his claim, adding, \u201cas officers intensified questioning, the suspect suddenly abandoned the vehicle and fled into a nearby forest. All efforts to apprehend him at the time proved abortive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John said preliminary investigation revealed that the vehicle was reported stolen in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>The Rivers State Police Command was immediately contacted, and a man (name withheld) came forward, presenting valid documents and confirming ownership of the car.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it has recovered a stolen Toyota Matrix vehicle with registration number KRJ 944 in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of the state. The command\u2019s spokesperson, DSP Timfon John, disclosed this in a press statement issued on Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[371,254,165],"class_list":["post-168253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police recover stolen vehicle in Akwa Ibom - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it has recovered a stolen Toyota Matrix vehicle with registration number KRJ 944 ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police recover stolen vehicle in Akwa Ibom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it has recovered a stolen Toyota Matrix vehicle with registration number KRJ 944 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-03T20:34:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-03T21:52:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751567061.722403.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"588\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police recover stolen vehicle in Akwa Ibom\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-03T20:34:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-03T21:52:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom\"},\"wordCount\":206,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751567061.722403.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akwa Ibom\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-vehicle-in-akwa-ibom\",\"name\":\"Police recover stolen vehicle in Akwa Ibom - 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