{"id":324842,"date":"2021-03-09T17:16:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T16:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=324842"},"modified":"2021-03-09T17:16:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T16:16:21","slug":"police-secure-release-of-2-kidnapped-victims-in-osun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=324842","title":{"rendered":"Police secure release of 2 kidnapped victims in Osun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Police Command in Osun said it had secured the release of two victims kidnapped by gunmen on the Ibadan-Akure Road in Ikire Osun on Saturday.
\nThe command`s spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, who disclosed this in statement on Tuesday in Osogbo, said the victims were released on Tuesday after the police closed in on them.<\/p>\n

He said that the victims were released following the efforts of the police and support of other security agencies in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victims were released in the early hours of today following the pressure mounted on the abductors by the police and other security agencies and no money was paid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe commissioner of police, Mr Olawale Olokode, appealed to the residents to collaborate with police to get rid of all criminal elements in the state,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n

Opalola said the commissioner assured members of the public and commuters of their safety as measures have been put in place to forestall future occurrence.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on Saturday, a Toyota Previa commercial bus was ambushed at Egbu Village in Ikire by suspected gunmen. (NAN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Police Command in Osun said it had secured the release of two victims kidnapped by gunmen on the Ibadan-Akure Road in Ikire Osun on Saturday. The command`s spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, who disclosed this in statement on Tuesday in Osogbo, said the victims were released on Tuesday after the police closed in on them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321543,"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":[1178,1164],"class_list":["post-324842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-kidnappers","tag-osun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324842","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=324842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}