{"id":1212997,"date":"2022-09-28T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/alleged-kidnapper-john-lyon-was-never-our-student\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:33:43","slug":"alleged-kidnapper-john-lyon-was-never-our-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/alleged-kidnapper-john-lyon-was-never-our-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Kidnapper, John Lyon Was Never Our Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The University of Calabar announced on Wednesday that the alleged kidnapper, John Ewa, also known as \u201cJohn Lyon,\u201d had not attended the school.<\/p>\n<p>The university\u2019s administration reportedly reacted angrily to the media claim and labeled it false in a statement released in Calabar by the institution\u2019s registrar, Mr. Gabriel Egbe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: <\/strong>Kidnap Kingpin Linked With Former Bayelsa APC Guber Candidate Arrested In Abuja (Video)<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Ewa was detained by the Bayelsa Police Command in connection with kidnapping activities and then paraded before the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe said John Ewa was never a student of the university, neither did he graduate from the institution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge members of the public to discountenance any information linking John Ewa to our prestigious university,\u201d Egbe said in the statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Calabar announced on Wednesday that the alleged kidnapper, John Ewa, also known as \u201cJohn Lyon,\u201d had not attended the school. The university\u2019s administration reportedly reacted angrily to the media claim and labeled it false in a statement released in Calabar by the institution\u2019s registrar, Mr. Gabriel Egbe. READ ALSO: Kidnap Kingpin Linked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212997","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\/1212997","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=1212997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}