{"id":142344,"date":"2019-08-09T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=142344"},"modified":"2019-08-09T19:07:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T18:07:38","slug":"drivers-block-kaduna-abuja-highway-over-killing-of-colleague-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=142344","title":{"rendered":"Drivers Block Kaduna-Abuja Highway Over Killing of Colleague By Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Drivers-Block-Kaduna-Abuja-Highway-Over-Killing-of-Colleague-By-Police.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><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>A group of drivers on Friday blocked the Kaduna-Abuja highway following the alleged killing of their colleague by police in the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, who asked not to be named, a policeman shot the driver following a disagreement over bribe. <\/p>\n<p>Sahara Reporters gathered that the policeman had demanded bribe from the driver but the victim was only able to offer N500 instead.  <\/p>\n<p>The situation was said to have led to an altercation in which the policeman shot at the driver eventually.<\/p>\n<p>The policeman and his colleagues were said to have fled the scene for fear of a reprisal attack by commercial drivers who witnessed the incident.\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of drivers on Friday blocked the Kaduna-Abuja highway following the alleged killing of their colleague by police in the area. According to an eyewitness, who asked not to be named, a policeman shot the driver following a disagreement over bribe. Sahara Reporters gathered that the policeman had demanded bribe from the driver but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142345,"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":[11812,30,4866],"class_list":["post-142344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-abuja-kaduna-highway","tag-arewa","tag-crime"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142344","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=142344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}