{"id":1185753,"date":"2022-08-21T10:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T10:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/21\/agba-jalingo-regains-freedom-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T10:49:28","slug":"agba-jalingo-regains-freedom-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/21\/agba-jalingo-regains-freedom-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Agba Jalingo Regains Freedom In Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Human rights activist, Agba Jalingo, has been released from police detention.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, made the announcement on his verified Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that policemen from the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Friday had stormed Jalingo\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p>He was later transferred to Abuja via the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Ikeja on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Channels Television in a telephone chat shortly after the flight, his wife, Mrs Jalingo, said \u201cThey have taken him (Jalingo) to Abuja.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked what the policemen said Jalingo\u2019s offence(s) was, his wife said, \u201cDefamation of character and infringement of integrity on Frank Ayade\u2019s wife, the younger brother to Cross River State, Governor Ben Ayade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jalingo, shortly before his arrest, announced on Facebook that the police officers surrounded his house and held down his wife and daughter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights activist, Agba Jalingo, has been released from police detention. Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, made the announcement on his verified Facebook page. Recall that policemen from the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Friday had stormed Jalingo\u2019s residence. He was later transferred to Abuja via the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Ikeja on Saturday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1185334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185753","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\/1185753","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=1185753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}