{"id":3852,"date":"2023-10-26T08:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T08:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2023-10-26T08:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T08:25:23","slug":"dss-confirms-release-of-former-efcc-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/26\/dss-confirms-release-of-former-efcc-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"DSS Confirms Release Of Former EFCC Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Department of State Services on Thursday, confirmed the release of the ex-Economic and Financial Crimes Commission boss, Abdulrasheed Bawa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The PUNCH reports that Bawa, who was arrested and detained by the DSS on June 14, 2023, following an invite over undisclosed reasons, after he visited President Bola Tinubu earlier on the same day was freed on Wednesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Director, Public Relations and Strategic Communications of the DSS, Peter Afunanya, confirmed the release of Bawa in a statement in a post on the agency\u2019s official X ((Formerly Twitter) account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cDSS confirms release of former EFCC chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, a\u00a0 few hours ago, today, Oct. 25,\u201d he posted on X (Formerly Twitter).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State Services on Thursday, confirmed the release of the ex-Economic and Financial Crimes Commission boss, Abdulrasheed Bawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}