{"id":1150613,"date":"2022-07-16T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T12:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/16\/gunmen-kidnap-top-nddc-official-in-imo\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T12:20:45","slug":"gunmen-kidnap-top-nddc-official-in-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/16\/gunmen-kidnap-top-nddc-official-in-imo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Kidnap Top NDDC Official In Imo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gunmen-Gunmennnnnnnnnnnnnnnn-600x323.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Saturday, 16th July, kidnapped a top official of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Kingsley Okorafor, in&nbsp;Imo State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kingsley was reportedly kidnapped about three kilometres away from a military checkpoint, close to his residence in Umuadara Umulogho autonomous community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The traditional ruler of the community, Eze Patrick Uwalaka has also confirmed the development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In an interview with DAILY POST, a family member of the NDDC official said he had attended a vigil for the late Traditional Ruler of Ndihu autonomous community in Obowo LGA, Eze Innocent Anyawu, whose burial is slated for today.<\/p>\n<p>The family source said the victim was pursued after he returned to his village from the vigil while his car was left behind.<\/p>\n<p>The source added that the suspected kidnappers are yet to reach the family members for any ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Imo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Mike Abattam is yet to confirm the development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Saturday, 16th July, kidnapped a top official of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Kingsley Okorafor, in&nbsp;Imo State. Kingsley was reportedly kidnapped about three kilometres away from a military checkpoint, close to his residence in Umuadara Umulogho autonomous community. The traditional ruler of the community, Eze Patrick Uwalaka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}