The Ogun State police command have arrested a 17 year old girl, Seun Adekunle and her boyfriend, one Basit Olasunkami for faking the kidnap of the girl.
According to a press release made available to newsmen in Abeokuta by the police public relations officer DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the mother of the girl, Bukky Adekunle was said to have reported at Enugada that she sent her daughter to Lafenwa market since on the 1st of June, 2020 and has not returned.
The mother further said that she received a call from someone two days later who claimed to have kidnap the girl and demanding for the sum of ₦500,000 as ransome if she likes to see her daughter alive, adding that the caller also warned her not to make mistake of reporting to the police if she still needs her daughter.
DSP Oyeyemi stated that the DPO Enugada division SP Baba Hamzat upon the complaint immediately led his detectives on technical and intelligence based investigation which led them to the hideout where the girl and her boyfriend are hibernating and pretending to be with kidnappers. They were promptly arrested and brought to the station.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the boyfriend who is a butcher was the one who brainwashed the girl and lured her into the devilish plan because he needed money to settle some only God knows problem.
The commissioner of police CP Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and possible prosecution.
