{"id":301,"date":"2024-07-09T07:57:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T07:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=301"},"modified":"2024-07-09T07:57:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T07:57:45","slug":"man-who-climbed-radio-mast-arrested-for-attempted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/man-who-climbed-radio-mast-arrested-for-attempted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Climbed Radio Mast Arrested For Attempted Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4065\" src=\"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The <\/span><span>police in Nigeria&#8217;s capital, Abuja has arrested one Shuaibu Alhaji Yushau for attempted suicide after climbing a radio broadcast mast, threatening to take his life if specific demands are not met by the federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier on Monday morning, Yushau climbed the very high mast with a placard that read, \u201c It is long enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His placard also stated that \u201cit is long enough for citizens to continue suffering from hunger\u201d and \u201clong enough for the government to stand while Boko Haram and bandits continue to kill people daily.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spokesperson of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Josephine Adeh, confirming the arrest, said: \u201cFollowing a distress call from concerned citizens about a young man who climbed a very high mast with a placard at ASO Radio in Katampe at about 09:10 a.m, the operatives of the FCT Police Command swiftly mobilized to the location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith much professional persuasion from the police operatives, the man, later identified as Shuaibu Alhaji Yushau, was prevented from taking his own life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c He claimed to have been observing the mast for about a week before deciding to climb it. The suspect is at present in police custody and in stable condition. Further development will be communicated in due course.\u201d, the police spokesperson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: Leadership.Ng<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police in Nigeria&#8217;s capital, Abuja has arrested one Shuaibu Alhaji Yushau for attempted suicide after climbing a radio broadcast mast, threatening to take his life if specific demands are not met by the federal government. Earlier on Monday morning, Yushau climbed the very high mast with a placard that read, \u201c It is long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}