{"id":12250,"date":"2018-09-29T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T19:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12250"},"modified":"2018-09-29T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T19:19:16","slug":"missing-general-army-finds-car-in-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12250","title":{"rendered":"Missing General: Army finds car in pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Army has recovered the vehicle of a missing military general inside a pond in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.<br \/>\nThe vehicle was in a pond at Dura Du, but it is unclear if it was empty.<br \/>\nMajor General Idris Alkali (Retd) has been missing for weeks and the military authorities have since launched a search for him.<br \/>\nThe Commander of the 3 Division of the Nigerian army and leader of the search and rescue mission, Brigadier-General Umar Mohammed, told Channels Television on September 20 that the troops had been deployed to\u00a0Dura Du.<br \/>\nAccording to him, following a preliminary investigation, the vehicle of the missing officer was seen close to the pond.<br \/>\nHe explained that the military had also received information that some vehicles had been pushed into the pond.<br \/>\nConsequently, Mohammed stated that the Force will do its best to find the\u00a0missing officer even if it meant draining it (the pond).<br \/>\n\u201cWe came here for the past three days seeing if we could salvage anything from the river. But this river, being a mining site is very deep. You can see that we have a crane. At the last resort, we have now decided that we will evacuate the water from the pond so that we can see what is inside,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe retired general was said to have been travelling from Abuja to Bauchi in a black Corolla vehicle on September 3 before he went missing.<br \/>\nBy <strong>Channels Television<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Army has recovered the vehicle of a missing military general inside a pond in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. The vehicle was in a pond at Dura Du, but it is unclear if it was empty. Major General Idris Alkali (Retd) has been missing for weeks and the military authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}