The Police Command in Ogun has arrested a 17-year-old girl, Seun Adekunle, and her 25-year-old boyfriend, Basit Olasunkanm, for allegedly faking kidnap of the girl.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who made this known in a statement on Friday in Abeokuta, said Adekunle and Olasunkanmi lived at 32, Agura Road, Abeojuta, and 4, Ogun Radio Road, Abeokuta respectively.
He explained that the two were arrested on Friday, following a report by the girl’s mother, Mrs. Bukola Adekunle.
The spokesman said the woman had complained at the Enugada Police Division, Abeokuta, on Thursday that her daughter was missing.
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“Mrs. Adekunle had made a report at the police station on Thursday that she sent her daughter to Lafenwa Market on Monday and she had yet to return.
“She stated further that she received a call from someone on Wednesday who claimed to have kidnapped her daughter and demanded N500,000 ransom for her release.
“Mrs. Adekunle also added that the caller warned her not to report the case to the police if she still loved to have her daughter back,” the PPRO said.
Oyeyemi said further that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Enugada Division, SP Baba Hamzat, quickly led some detectives on investigation to the hideout where the girl and her boyfriend were hiding and hatching the plot and promptly arrested them.
“Preliminary investigations reveal that the boyfriend, a butcher, was the one who brainwashed the girl and lured her into the devilish plan because he needed money to settle some problems.
“Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered immediate transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigations and possible prosecution,” he added.
