{"id":184711,"date":"2020-01-14T19:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=184711"},"modified":"2020-01-14T19:44:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:44:22","slug":"three-men-remanded-over-murder-of-7-yr-old-boy-in-ogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=184711","title":{"rendered":"Three men remanded over murder of 7-yr-old boy in Ogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">An Abeokuta Magistrates\u2019 Court in Ake on Tuesday remanded three men in a correctional centre for allegedly kidnapping and killing a seven-year-old boy, Musa Abdulmalik<\/p>\n<p>The defendants, Faruq Sheiidu,34; Nurah Habbib, 26; and Mohammed Bello,42, whose pleas were not taken, are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, kidnap and murder.<\/p>\n<p>The Magistrate, Mrs Victoria Williams, ordered that the case file be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.<\/p>\n<p>Williams adjourned the case till March 16 for mention, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Adekunle Opayemi, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on Dec.11, 2019 at about 8:00pm at Alhaji Musa Abdulamid Compound, Oke field area of Abeokuta.<\/p>\n<p>Opayemi said that the defendants kidnapped and killed the boy after his parents could not pay the ransom they asked for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trio took the boy to where nobody could have access to him and strangled him to death,\u201d the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>Opayemi, said that the offences contravened Sections 516(A), 23(2), 24(1) and 324 of the Criminal Law of Ogun, 2006.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Abeokuta Magistrates\u2019 Court in Ake on Tuesday remanded three men in a correctional centre for allegedly kidnapping and killing a seven-year-old boy, Musa Abdulmalik The defendants, Faruq Sheiidu,34; Nurah Habbib, 26; and Mohammed Bello,42, whose pleas were not taken, are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, kidnap and murder. The Magistrate, Mrs Victoria Williams, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184712,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,1178,391],"class_list":["post-184711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-kidnappers","tag-ogun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184711","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=184711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}