{"id":46702,"date":"2021-07-14T16:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter"},"modified":"2021-07-14T17:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:05:56","slug":"kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna: Bandits kidnap 774, kill 222 in second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Seven hundred and seventy-four people were kidnapped and 222 killed from April to June, 2021 in Kaduna State, the state government has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The state Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan who presented the Security Incidents Report for the second quarter of 2021 explained that Kaduna Central and South senatorial zones recorded 159 and 54 deaths respectively while Kaduna north had nine.<\/p>\n<p>Aruwan further explained the number of deaths to kidnappings, banditry, communal clashes and other criminal activities in the local government areas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the security incidents report, the Commissioner said 8,553 cattle were rustled during the period under review.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the security report, Governor Nasir El-Rufai said unconventional approach is required to enable his administration protect communities in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Seven hundred and seventy-four people were kidnapped and 222 killed from April to June, 2021 in Kaduna State, the state government has revealed. The state Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan who presented the Security Incidents Report for the second quarter of 2021 explained that Kaduna Central and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,591,96,138,254],"class_list":["post-46702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-bandits","tag-kaduna","tag-kidnap","tag-nigeria"],"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>Kaduna: Bandits kidnap 774, kill 222 in second quarter - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Seven hundred and seventy-four people were kidnapped and 222 killed from April to June, 2021 in Kaduna State, the state ...\" \/>\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\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kaduna: Bandits kidnap 774, kill 222 in second quarter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seven hundred and seventy-four people were kidnapped and 222 killed from April to June, 2021 in Kaduna State, the state ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-14T15:38:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-14T16:05:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60ef0b40aed8c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"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\/policy\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kaduna: Bandits kidnap 774, kill 222 in second quarter\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-14T15:38:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-07-14T16:05:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter\"},\"wordCount\":130,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60ef0b40aed8c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"bandits\",\"Kaduna\",\"Kidnap\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-bandits-kidnap-774-kill-222-in-second-quarter\",\"name\":\"Kaduna: Bandits kidnap 774, kill 222 in second quarter - 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