{"id":5012,"date":"2025-03-26T11:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:33:22","slug":"rivers-nigeria-police-kill-suspected-vandals-attempting-to-bomb-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/03\/26\/rivers-nigeria-police-kill-suspected-vandals-attempting-to-bomb-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers: Nigeria Police kill Suspected Vandals Attempting To Bomb Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Police Command in Rivers State on Tuesday confirmed the killing of an unspecified number of suspected vandals attempting to vandalize a pipeline in the Rumuekpe Aluu community.<\/p>\n<p>CP Olugbenga Adepoju, the Commissioner of Police in Rivers, revealed this to newsmen in Port Harcourt, stating that the suspects died on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>He reported that the operation was part of the ongoing joint effort with other security agencies to safeguard Rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Adepoju said: \u201cThe joint security forces successfully thwarted an attempt by miscreants to vandalise a pipeline, leading to the death of the vandals who sought to detonate it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe failed detonation was due to the swift response of security personnel to the incident at Allu-Rumuekpe in Ikwerre Local Government Area, LGA, of Rivers on March 16.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adepoju also disclosed that following the success, security forces proceeded to Onelga LGA on March 19, where they stopped another potential bomb attack by criminals.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, two suspects were arrested in possession of four dynamites during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the police also detonated pods and other Improvised Explosive devices, IED, components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Police Command in Rivers State on Tuesday confirmed the killing of an unspecified number of suspected vandals attempting to vandalize a pipeline in the Rumuekpe Aluu community. CP Olugbenga Adepoju, the Commissioner&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5014,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions\/5014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}