Girl plans own abduction with lover, seeks N200, 000 ransom

By Peter Moses, Abeokuta—

Ogun Police Command yesterday arrested a 20-yearold girl, Tohebat Adebayo, who allegedly planned her abduction in connivance with her 30 year old boyfriend, Afolabi Ogunremi. A statement made available to reporters in Abeokutayesterday by the command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the girl’s “abduction” was reported on September 27 at Lafenwa divisional of the police command by her parents. Oyeyemi, in the statement, quoted the complainant to have said the girl left home to Lafenwa market but did not return only for them to be called on phone by an unknown man, who informed them of the kidnap and demanded N200, 000 as ransom.

“Upon the report, the DPO, CSP Kayode Ayilara, led his detectives on a technical investigation of the case, which led them to an abandoned house inside the GRA where the girl was being kept. “Th e discovery led to the arrest of Adebayo, who happened to be the security man in the house. On interrogation, Adebayo claimed to be the boyfriend of the girl and that they both planned to simulate her kidnap in order to raise money for her forthcoming birthday from the parents.” Th e statement disclosed that the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, had ordered the immediate transfer of the case to anti kidnapping and cultists unit of criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation.

 

 

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