{"id":63616,"date":"2018-11-22T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T16:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63616"},"modified":"2018-11-22T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T16:05:16","slug":"police-confirm-arrest-of-benue-man-who-allegedly-slaughtered-9-month-old-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63616","title":{"rendered":"Police confirm arrest of Benue man who allegedly slaughtered 9-month-old daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1528314949_Nigeria-Police-613x450.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Police in Benue have arrested a man identified as John Depuun, a native of Mbagur Shangev in Konshisha LGA of the state, for reportedly slaughtering his nine-month-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered that the young man committed the act on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>When he was arrested the police, he allegedly admitted committing the cruel act, and that he was instructed by God to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the development, the Benue State Police PRO, ASP Moses Yamu, said the man has since been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Yamu added that investigation is still on to unravel the motive behind the cruel act.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police in Benue have arrested a man identified as John Depuun, a native of Mbagur Shangev in Konshisha LGA of the state, for reportedly slaughtering his nine-month-old daughter. DAILY POST gathered that the young man committed the act on Wednesday morning. When he was arrested the police, he allegedly admitted committing the cruel act, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25550,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[35,61],"class_list":["post-63616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-benue","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63616","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=63616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}