{"id":121014,"date":"2019-05-26T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=121014"},"modified":"2019-05-26T20:27:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T19:27:18","slug":"abducted-kannywood-director-regains-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=121014","title":{"rendered":"Abducted Kannywood director regains freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Abducted filmmaker, Salisu Muazu, and two others, have regained their freedom, two days after being abducted by unknown gunmen, along the Kaduna-Jos road on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Alhaji Sani Muazu, a brother to the victim, confirmed their release to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Sunday.<\/p>\n

He said all the three victims were freed after paying the N10m ransom as demanded by the kidnappers.<\/p>\n

According to Sani, \u201cWe paid the ransom and we were misled on where we could reach our brothers and while searching, a truck driver, who saw them, led us to where we could find them.\u201d<\/p>\n

He described the situation and the experience of trying to secure their release as a gruelling one for both the captives and their relatives.<\/p>\n

Recall that the two brothers and two others were returning from a conference in Kaduna when they were stopped by armed bandits on their way to Jos<\/p>\n

While Sani narrowly escaped, his brother, Salisu, and two other friends were held captive by the bandits, who later demanded N10m ransom.<\/p>\n

Sani and Salisu are both filmmakers and television experts who have been in Kannywood since the inception of the industry.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abducted filmmaker, Salisu Muazu, and two others, have regained their freedom, two days after being abducted by unknown gunmen, along the Kaduna-Jos road on Thursday. Alhaji Sani Muazu, a brother to the victim, confirmed their release to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Sunday. He said all the three victims were freed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121015,"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":[3773,1,3],"tags":[30,4866,12183,11811],"class_list":["post-121014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-arewa","tag-crime","tag-film-maker","tag-kidnapped"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121014","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=121014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}