{"id":5066,"date":"2025-03-13T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2025-03-13T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:55:14","slug":"imo-youths-storm-forest-arrest-five-kidnappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/imo-youths-storm-forest-arrest-five-kidnappers\/","title":{"rendered":"Imo youths storm forest, arrest five kidnappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5067\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/images2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Amah<\/p>\n<p>Kindly share:<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Angry youths from Ngor Okpala LGA of Imo State have stormed forests in the locality in search of kidnappers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">After combing the forest, the youths succeeded in arresting five suspected kidnappers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The raid which was conducted in collaboration with local hunters, followed an incident last week when kidnappers struck in the town and attacked commuters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It was gathered that the arrested alleged kidnappers comprised two two Abia State indigenes and three northerners.<\/p>\n<p>All the villagers were reportedly summoned for the operation through local town criers with a condition failure to come. Out would attract a fine of N50, 000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe youth and the local hunters came out in large numbers combing the forest and succeeded\u00a0in capturing the kidnappers who a few days ago attacked passengers who were going to Aba, Abia state from Imo state,&#8221; a source in the town said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kidnappers were eventually handed over to the operatives of the joint security outfit who were on hand to take them to the police station, having been informed by the villagers of the planned operation.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amah Kindly share: Angry youths from Ngor Okpala LGA of Imo State have stormed forests in the locality in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-5066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-kidnappers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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