{"id":48481,"date":"2024-09-12T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-confirm-release-of-kidnapped-makindes-ally\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T07:00:25","slug":"police-confirm-release-of-kidnapped-makindes-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-confirm-release-of-kidnapped-makindes-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Police confirm release of kidnapped Makinde\u2019s ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Oyo State Police command has confirmed the release of Benedict Akiika, one of the allies of Governor Seyi Makinde who was kidnapped last week.<\/p>\n<p>The command made this declaration via a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that Akiika was abducted at his residence located at Idi Ape in Olorunda-Aba community in Lagelu local government area of the state on Wednesday 4th August, this year.<\/p>\n<p>Osifeso in a statement made available to DAILY POST Thursday morning, said that the kidnapped victim has regained his freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim who regained his freedom late evening on Wednesday, 11\/09\/2024 is currently undergoing medical intervention prior to his final reunion with his loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEfforts are currently in top gear to apprehend the criminal network responsible for the reprehensible act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile appealing to residents of the State to assist the ongoing Investigation by providing timely and credible information to the Police, the Oyo State Police Command re-affirms its resolve to ensure that Oyo State is not turned into a playground for the sinister minded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirm release of kidnapped Makinde\u2019s ally<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oyo State Police command has confirmed the release of Benedict Akiika, one of the allies of Governor Seyi Makinde who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,15,310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-makinde","category-news","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}