{"id":228643,"date":"2026-03-27T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-we-promised-support-for-soldier-accused-of-n114-million-fraud-abia-govt\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:50:07","slug":"nigeria-why-we-promised-support-for-soldier-accused-of-n114-million-fraud-abia-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-we-promised-support-for-soldier-accused-of-n114-million-fraud-abia-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why We Promised Support for Soldier Accused of N114 Million Fraud &#8211; Abia Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Abia State Government says Governor Alex Otti&#8217;s earlier promises of support to the now accused soldier was based on compassionate ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Abia State Government has given reasons why it earlier promised to help a Nigerian soldier, Simon Amoke, a Sergeant now arrested by army authorities over alleged N114 million fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Media reports say Mr Amoke, member of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/recruitment.army.mil.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigerian Army<\/a><\/strong> Engineers Corps attached to a regiment in Lagos, was arrested at the Port Harcourt International Airport while&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603260481.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>The Abia State Government says Governor Alex Otti&#8217;s earlier promises of support to the now accused soldier was based on compassionate ground. The Abia State Government has given reasons why it earlier promised to help a Nigerian soldier, Simon Amoke, a Sergeant now arrested by army authorities over alleged N114 million fraud. Media reports say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228644,"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":[33368,7083,258,256,8666,4357,5118,48935,257,4687,393,20459,7761,254,6096],"class_list":["post-228643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abia","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fraud","tag-govt","tag-million","tag-n114","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-promised","tag-soldier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"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\/228643","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=228643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}