{"id":241012,"date":"2026-08-13T19:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-suspected-kidnapper-arrested-while-attempting-to-buy-ak-47-in-kwara\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:49:03","slug":"nigeria-suspected-kidnapper-arrested-while-attempting-to-buy-ak-47-in-kwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-suspected-kidnapper-arrested-while-attempting-to-buy-ak-47-in-kwara\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Suspected Kidnapper Arrested While Attempting to Buy Ak-47 in Kwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Ilorin \u2014 <em>The Kwara State Police Command has foiled an alleged attempt to procure an AK-47 rifle for a kidnapping operation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The suspect, said to be a member of a kidnapping gang, was also arrested in Kaiama Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The suspect, identified as Sanda Aliyu, was arrested before the firearm could be delivered following intelligence received by operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Section on August 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Police said the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608130450.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Ilorin \u2014 The Kwara State Police Command has foiled an alleged attempt to procure an AK-47 rifle for a kidnapping operation. The suspect, said to be a member of a kidnapping gang, was also arrested in Kaiama Local Government Area. The suspect, identified as Sanda Aliyu, was arrested before the firearm could be delivered following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,3492,4304,29613,11632,11369,12920,257,4687,393,254,7846],"class_list":["post-241012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ak47","tag-arrested","tag-attempting","tag-buy","tag-kidnapper","tag-kwara","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241012","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=241012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}