{"id":1758,"date":"2026-10-19T10:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2026-10-19T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:51:26","slug":"police-rescue-catholic-priest-5-other-kidnap-victims-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"Police rescue Catholic priest, 5 other kidnap victims in Benue\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Emmanuel Antswen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Police Command in Benue has rescued Rev. Fr. John Otache, a Catholic Priest and five other residents from their abductors in Ohimini Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DSP Aondogu Orchia, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, disclosed this to newsmen on Sunday in Makurdi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Otache, a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Otukpo in Benue, was kidnapped on Oct. 13, along Otobi-Amejo-Ajegbe road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The PPRO said that the victims were rescued on Sunday evening by security personnel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said that the abductees were currently at the Otukpo Teaching Hospital for medical checks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Command in Benue has rescued Rev. Fr. John Otache, a Catholic Priest and five other residents from their abductors in Ohimini Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[1006,1005],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","tag-5-other-kidnap-victims-in-benue","tag-police-rescue-catholic-priest"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Nigeria_Police_logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}