{"id":7763,"date":"2025-07-17T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=7763"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:50:23","slug":"kogi-government-makes-new-strides-in-crackdown-on-kidnappers-and-informants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/07\/17\/kogi-government-makes-new-strides-in-crackdown-on-kidnappers-and-informants\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Government Makes New Strides in Crackdown on Kidnappers and Informants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to rid Kogi State of criminals, the Kogi State Government has made further successes with a crackdown on informants of kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A press statement on Tuesday signed by Kingsley Femi Fanwo, Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications stated that two more informants have been arrested in the last 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads, \u201cThe state Government wishes to inform the public that Babatunde Aledare, the suspected kidnapping informant earlier arrested in Ayetoro Kiri, Kabba\/Bunu Local Government Area, has made confessional statements and revealed the identities of other collaborators involved in aiding kidnapping operations in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing his confession, two more informants have been arrested in the last 48 hours, Dare Okegbe and Lakutu Omobab Ajelesimi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth suspects are also from Ayetoro Kiri and have confessed to working with kidnappers to set up members of their own community for abduction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis development marks another significant step forward in our ongoing efforts to dismantle kidnapping networks in Okunland. More arrests may follow as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kogi State Government remains committed to ensuring the safety of all citizens and will leave no stone unturned in the fight against criminality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to rid Kogi State of criminals, the Kogi State Government has made further successes with a crackdown on informants of kidnappers. &nbsp; A press statement on Tuesday signed by Kingsley Femi&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7763","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\/7763","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=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7765,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions\/7765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}