{"id":70499,"date":"2022-08-18T10:16:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T09:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:36:43","slug":"zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara DPO regains freedom after five days in captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Usman Ali, the Divisional Police Officer of Magami Division, Gusau Local Government of Zamfara State, has regained his freedom after five days in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>The freedom of the DPO abducted by terrorists, was secured by the newly inaugurated community protection guards on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Bello Matawalle, while confirming the development, thanked Almighty Allah for the life of the abducted police officer, hailing \u201cthe efforts of the newly inaugurated community protection guards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, unspecified ransom was paid by the DPO\u2019s friends and family members before he could regain his freedom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Usman Ali, the Divisional Police Officer of Magami Division, Gusau Local Government of Zamfara State, has regained his freedom after five days in captivity. The freedom of the DPO abducted by terrorists, was secured by the newly inaugurated community protection guards on Tuesday night. Governor Bello Matawalle, while confirming the development, thanked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":70498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,5998,254,150],"class_list":["post-70499","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-dpo","tag-nigeria","tag-zamfara"],"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>Zamfara DPO regains freedom after five days in captivity - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Usman Ali, the Divisional Police Officer of Magami Division, Gusau Local Government of Zamfara State, has regained his f ...\" \/>\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\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zamfara DPO regains freedom after five days in captivity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Usman Ali, the Divisional Police Officer of Magami Division, Gusau Local Government of Zamfara State, has regained his f ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-18T09:16:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-18T10:36:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fe1620baeb5.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\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\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Zamfara DPO regains freedom after five days in captivity\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-18T09:16:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-18T10:36:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity\"},\"wordCount\":112,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fe1620baeb5.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"DPO\",\"Nigeria\",\"Zamfara\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/zamfara-dpo-regains-freedom-after-five-days-in-captivity\",\"name\":\"Zamfara DPO regains freedom after five days in captivity - 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