{"id":184592,"date":"2024-11-14T13:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T11:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-chief-arrested-for-kidnapping-in-2020-not-2024-as-claimed-online\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T11:46:21","slug":"nigerian-chief-arrested-for-kidnapping-in-2020-not-2024-as-claimed-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-chief-arrested-for-kidnapping-in-2020-not-2024-as-claimed-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Chief Arrested for Kidnapping in 2020, Not 2024 As Claimed Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>Nigerian chief arrested for kidnapping in 2020, not 2024 as claimed online<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><strong>IN SHORT: <\/strong>An Igbo chief from Nigeria&#8217;s Imo state was among a group of people arrested on various charges, including kidnapping, in 2020. Claims that the arrest took place in 2024 are false.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;The Imo State Police have arrested Igwe Eze Okwuegbunwa, a 69-year-old Igbo monarch from Uba-Agwa in Oguta LGA, along with his wife, cousin, pastor, and 30 others on charges of r0bbery and k!dnapping,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=122117492090505289&amp;id=61565158672796&amp;rdid=92cnubHGuH1b0cTQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a> a Facebook post dated 17&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411140206.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>Nigerian chief arrested for kidnapping in 2020, not 2024 as claimed online IN SHORT: An Igbo chief from Nigeria&#8217;s Imo state was among a group of people arrested on various charges, including kidnapping, in 2020. Claims that the arrest took place in 2024 are false. &#8220;The Imo State Police have arrested Igwe Eze Okwuegbunwa, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184593,"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":[258,256,4304,6510,16146,1457,257,393,482,6849,254],"class_list":["post-184592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-chief","tag-claimed","tag-kidnapping","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-online","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/184592","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=184592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}