{"id":204762,"date":"2025-08-15T22:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fake-soldier-police-to-die-by-haging-for-armed-robbery\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T22:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:03:11","slug":"nigeria-fake-soldier-police-to-die-by-haging-for-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fake-soldier-police-to-die-by-haging-for-armed-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Fake Soldier, Police to Die By Haging for Armed Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">David Friday and Innocent Victor committed the offence on 15 January, 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">An <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ondostate.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ondo State<\/a><\/strong> High Court in Akure has sentenced David Friday and Innocent Victor, to death by hanging for their involvement in armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">They were arraigned on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, armed robbery, and impersonating members of the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">A prosecution witness, Akinmodun Akinleye, told the court that while returning from his farm along Ibepo in Idanre on 15 January 15, 2021, at about 1&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508150312.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>David Friday and Innocent Victor committed the offence on 15 January, 2021. An Ondo State High Court in Akure has sentenced David Friday and Innocent Victor, to death by hanging for their involvement in armed robbery. They were arraigned on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, armed robbery, and impersonating members of the armed forces. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9663,9028,6891,52114,257,4687,393,662,1460,7761,254],"class_list":["post-204762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-die","tag-fake","tag-haging","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-soldier","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/204762","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=204762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}