{"id":184341,"date":"2024-11-11T01:37:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T23:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-community-whose-ruler-was-jailed-for-theft-in-u-s-likens-his-case-to-trumps\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T01:37:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T23:37:36","slug":"nigerian-community-whose-ruler-was-jailed-for-theft-in-u-s-likens-his-case-to-trumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-community-whose-ruler-was-jailed-for-theft-in-u-s-likens-his-case-to-trumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Community Whose Ruler Was Jailed for Theft in U.S. Likens His Case to Trump&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>According to court documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, the traditional ruler was convicted of theft in April 1997 at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, State of Maryland in the US.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Ogwashi-Uku Community has spoken on the conviction of its traditional ruler in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Ogwashi-Uku is a community in Anaocha South Local Government Area of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/751825-efcc-detains-ex-governor-okowa-of-delta.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Delta<\/a><\/strong> State, Nigeria&#8217;s South-South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>The conviction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">PREMIUM TIMES <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/752316-exclusive-man-convicted-of-theft-in-us-emerges-traditional-ruler-in-nigeria.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exclusively reported<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesday that the community&#8217;s traditional ruler, Ifechukwude Okonjo,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411080287.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to court documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, the traditional ruler was convicted of theft in April 1997 at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, State of Maryland in the US. Ogwashi-Uku Community has spoken on the conviction of its traditional ruler in the US. Ogwashi-Uku is a community in Anaocha South Local Government Area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6683,7963,5696,46648,257,393,482,17797,254,9201,9387,2282],"class_list":["post-184341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-community","tag-jailed","tag-likens","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-ruler","tag-south-africa-today","tag-theft","tag-trumps","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}