{"id":58037,"date":"2022-06-04T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T18:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=58037"},"modified":"2022-06-04T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T18:17:36","slug":"mob-kills-security-guard-for-blasphemy-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=58037","title":{"rendered":"Mob kills security guard for blasphemy in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A member of a vigilance group guarding a timber shed in Lugbe, along the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, has been killed for allegedly making a blasphemous statement against the prophet of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>According to an insider, the member of the vigilance group guarding the market at the Federal Housing Estate in Abuja had effected an arrest of a particular trader who was fond of closing late in the market.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Friday, he was arrested for the offence and was kept in their office; but this afternoon (Saturday) when the man was pleading for forgiveness, he pleaded with the name of God and the prophet; but the arresting vigilant\u00e9 said something to the effect that if the prophet was to come down, he would not set him free. That ignited the trouble that led to a mob beating, stoning, throwing tyres, and setting him ablaze. Unfortunately, the man was a Muslim like the trader,&#8221; a source said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 426px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-58037-1\" width=\"426\" height=\"242\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/VID-20220604-WA0023.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/VID-20220604-WA0023.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/VID-20220604-WA0023.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The security forces were called in and the timber shed has since been shut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of a vigilance group guarding a timber shed in Lugbe, along the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, has been killed for allegedly making a blasphemous statement against the prophet of Islam. According to an insider, the member of the vigilance group guarding the market at the Federal Housing Estate in Abuja had effected an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":58039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5781],"tags":[2618,4797,3236],"class_list":["post-58037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-obituary","tag-blasphemy","tag-lugbe","tag-vigilance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58037","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=58037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}