{"id":895,"date":"2024-08-02T01:50:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T01:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2024-08-02T01:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T01:50:06","slug":"police-launch-investigation-into-anti-drug-task-force-members-over-yendi-mans-fatal-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"Police launch investigation into anti-drug task force members over Yendi man&#8217;s fatal incident&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-01_223600318-696x465-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-01_223600318-696x465-1.png 696w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2024-08-01_223600318-696x465-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Police in the Northern Region are on a manhunt for five members of an anti-drug abuse task force in connection with the alleged murder of Hudu Abdul Rashid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a resident, Mr Hudu was pronounced dead on arrival at Yendi Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The source stated that the deceased was hit in the neck area and subsequently fell to the ground, losing consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was rushed to the hospital, where he was declared dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information gathered by Joy News indicates that the task force members had initially gone to Mr Hudu\u2019s wife\u2019s store, accusing her of dealing in tramadol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a search yielded nothing, the task force returned on July 30, 2024, to confront her again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The task force allegedly seized her wares and took her money. In response, the woman called her husband, to intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This led to a confrontation between him and the task force, which resulted in his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Hudu was laid to rest on Wednesday in Yendi in line with Islamic customs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joy News sources reveal that a team from the Northern Regional Police Headquarters will join their counterparts in Yendi to assist with the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Various task forces have been formed in the Northern Region to combat the increasing drug use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Joy News has learned that the police have not sanctioned any of these task forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Northern Region are on a manhunt for five members of an anti-drug abuse task force in connection with the alleged murder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}