{"id":111080,"date":"2019-04-26T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=111080"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T17:46:59","slug":"rivers-gunmen-shoot-bus-driver-on-east-west-road-kidnap-all-the-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=111080","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Gunmen Shoot Bus Driver On East-West Road, Kidnap All The Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%2278164%22,%22view_mode%22:%22embedded%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22full%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_caption%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_attribution%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_align%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22center%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22,%22link_text%22:null%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Rivers-Gunmen-Shoot-Bus-Driver-On-East-West-Road-Kidnap-All-The-Passengers.JPG\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jonah Sokolo, a driver with the Abua Odual Local Government Transport Service, has been shot dead by kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>The kidnappers also made away with all the other passengers in the 30-seater Coaser Bus.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Thursday evening along Emohua axis of the East-West road in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was heading to Abua Oduah town when the kidnappers ambushed them along the deadly route, which has become road users&#8217; nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Nnamdi Omoni, Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State Police Command, confirmed the incident but said the details were still sketchy.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, four human heads were chopped chopped off in a cult attack in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>One person who narrated his harrowing experience to SaharaReporters said his brother was a victim of the kidnappers last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dMy brother who is driver was kidnapped from that same Emohua Axis of East West Road; we had to paid N500,000 for them before my brother come out. If this didn&#8217;t happen to you, you will not understand.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah Sokolo, a driver with the Abua Odual Local Government Transport Service, has been shot dead by kidnappers. The kidnappers also made away with all the other passengers in the 30-seater Coaser Bus. The incident occurred on Thursday evening along Emohua axis of the East-West road in Rivers State. The bus was heading to Abua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}