{"id":19547,"date":"2019-12-30T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=19547"},"modified":"2019-12-30T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:23:44","slug":"police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest armed robbery suspects in Abuja, foil kidnap attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja Police Command has debunked what it described as a misleading message being circulated in the social media claiming that\u201c bandits\/kidnappers killed four (4) persons at Kabi Mangoro of Pegi axis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by ASP Mariam Yusuf, Deputy PRO said, \u201cOn the contrary, the FCT Police Command swiftly responded to a distress call on 29th December 2019 and arrested two (2) suspected armed robbers at a robbery scene in Gbogu Village along Kabi Mangoro road at Pegi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Police Operatives attached to Pegi Division were instantly deployed to the scene where they apprehended the two (2) suspects and disarmed them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, two victims of the robbery were killed following deep machete wounds inflicted on them by the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEfforts are in place to arrest one of the suspects still at large.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commissioner of Police has launched a discreet investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile commiserating with the families of the deceased persons, the Command urges residents to remain calm and reiterates its unwavering commitment to the protection of lives and property within the Federal Capital Territory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja Police Command has debunked what it described as a misleading message being circulated in the social media claiming that\u201c bandits\/kidnappers killed four (4) persons at Kabi Mangoro of Pegi axis\u201d. A statement by ASP Mariam Yusuf, Deputy PRO said, \u201cOn the contrary, the FCT Police Command swiftly responded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":19548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[347,548],"class_list":["post-19547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-abuja","tag-nigerian-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 arrest armed robbery suspects in Abuja, foil kidnap attempt - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja Police Command has debunked what it described as a misleading message being circulated in the social media\" \/>\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\/all-news\/police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police arrest armed robbery suspects in Abuja, foil kidnap attempt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja Police Command has debunked what it described as a misleading message being circulated in the social media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-30T15:23:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Obaseki-Oshiomhole-750x430-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"430\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Police arrest armed robbery suspects in Abuja, foil kidnap attempt\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-30T15:23:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt\"},\"wordCount\":188,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Obaseki-Oshiomhole-750x430-1.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Abuja\",\"Nigerian police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-armed-robbery-suspects-in-abuja-foil-kidnap-attempt\",\"name\":\"Police arrest armed robbery suspects in Abuja, foil kidnap attempt - 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