{"id":37042,"date":"2021-11-21T22:29:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T21:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=37042"},"modified":"2021-11-21T22:29:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T21:29:45","slug":"former-fct-protocol-director-gunned-down-with-many-feared-abducted-on-abuja-kaduna-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=37042","title":{"rendered":"Former FCT protocol director gunned down with many feared abducted on Abuja-Kaduna expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Director of Protocol in the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) and Zamfara State Governorship Aspirant, Alhaji Sagir Hamidu, is dead. He was shot dead on Sunday along Kaduna &#8211; Abuja Road by bandits, it was gathered.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A source said that other passengers may have been abducted  in the operation near Katari village along Abuja-Kaduna expressway. Abandoned vehicles were seen parked beside the road between the hours of 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., leading to fears that they were either kidnapped or fled into the bushes. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A video of the parked vehicles was trending on social media, as word was being awaited from the Police.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/VID-20211121-WA0027.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hamidu was the Head of Protocol when Dr. Ibrahim Modibbo was the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, a source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Director of Protocol in the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) and Zamfara State Governorship Aspirant, Alhaji Sagir Hamidu, is dead. He was shot dead on Sunday along Kaduna &#8211; Abuja Road by bandits, it was gathered. A source said that other passengers may have been abducted in the operation near Katari village along Abuja-Kaduna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[597,4230,809],"class_list":["post-37042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-abduction","tag-hamidu","tag-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37042","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=37042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}