{"id":258732,"date":"2020-09-15T20:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T19:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=258732"},"modified":"2020-09-15T20:26:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T19:26:58","slug":"one-killed-as-gunmen-abduct-ex-us-soldier-one-other-in-ekiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=258732","title":{"rendered":"One killed as gunmen abduct ex-US Soldier, one other in Ekiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">One person was killed yesterday in Ilupeju-Ijan Ekiti, Gbonyin Local Government area of Ekiti State, as a retired United States of America army officer, Major Jide Ijadare and one other were kidnapped in the town.<br \/>\nIjadare, a native of Ijan Ekiti was kidnapped at his palm oil-producing factory located along Ijan-Ise Ekiti road.<br \/>\nConfirming the incident, a resident of the community, revealed that the criminal numbering seven invaded the factory and shot a staff in the course of making spirited efforts to kidnap the retired army officer and other victims.<br \/>\n\u201cThey came into the factory with guns and started shooting sporadically. They shot one of the staff of the factory and killed him.<br \/>\n\u201cThey then dragged Major Ijadare and the other staff into the car and zoomed off\u201d.<br \/>\nThe source stated that the abductors escaped through Ise Ekiti road.<br \/>\nThe Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti Command, Mr. Sunday Abutu, confirmed that one person was killed during the abduction.<br \/>\n\u201cWe can confirm to you that a retired US soldier was kidnapped around 2:00pm today (Tuesday) and one other.<br \/>\n\u201cOne person was also killed during the attack at a factory in Ijan Ekiti where the two persons were kidnapped.<br \/>\n\u201cThe police commissioner has drafted policemen to the place and we are combing the bushes where they escaped into.<br \/>\n\u201cThe police are working with local hunters to ensure that these kidnappers are arrested and prosecuted\u201d.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person was killed yesterday in Ilupeju-Ijan Ekiti, Gbonyin Local Government area of Ekiti State, as a retired United States of America army officer, Major Jide Ijadare and one other were kidnapped in the town. Ijadare, a native of Ijan Ekiti was kidnapped at his palm oil-producing factory located along Ijan-Ise Ekiti road. Confirming the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258733,"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":[2658,594,4166],"class_list":["post-258732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-ekiti","tag-gunmen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258732","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=258732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/258733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}