The Oyo State Police Command has arrested
one Mrs. Bukola Ogun for allegedly faking her
own kidnap with the aim of extorting money
from her husband, and to also persuade the
man, a citizen of America, to relocate her to
the States.
The housewife was recently paraded alongside
12 other suspects for various crimes by the
Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Abiodun Odude at the Police Headquarters,
Eleyele, Ibadan.
According to the Police boss, the 37-year-old
businesswoman was arrested with two men
who she had conspired with, among whom
was her cousin, Kayode Adepoju, who helped
in orchestrating her own kidnap in order to
fraudulently obtain money from her husband.
The commissioner told journalists that the
incident happened at about 7:45 p.m. on
Tuesday, July 4, when three armed hoodlums
stormed the residence of the supposed victim
and ?kidnapped? her to an unknown
destination.
?Barely four hours later, the suspects
contacted the victim?s husband, demanding
for N10million as ransom as a condition for his
wife?s release.
?Unknown to the husband that the kidnap was
actually arranged by his wife, he reported the
case to the police, and upon the receipt,
operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad
(SARS) began a manhunt for the hoodlums.
?During an intensive investigation, two
suspects were arrested, and they let the cat
out of the bag, as operatives were stunned to
discover that the victim was the architect of
the fake kidnap.
?The woman, for the three days she was
away, lodged in a hotel at Imalefalafia area,
Ibadan, while efforts were on to rescue her,
but after two of the suspects were eventually
arrested in their criminal hideout at
Imalefalafia area, they confessed to the crime
and the mastermind was arrested,? the police
boss said.
Confessing to the crime, she said she called
her cousin, Kayode, informing him that she
wanted her husband to relocate her to the
United States, so wanted to stage her own
kidnap so, after her rescue, her husband
would be left with no option than to send her
abroad.
?So I left home on Tuesday, July 4, and
returned on Thursday, July 6, acting as if I
was kidnapped. It was then that my husband
started calling about that I had been
kidnapped before finally informing the police.
?Everything is still like a child?s play; he is an
American citizen and I just wanted him to
relocate me to the US. I told the gang to
demand for N10million from my husband; I
knew he could not afford that kind of money,
but just for the whole plan to look real.
?And within the three days I was away, I
lodged myself in a hotel, but I regret
everything now,? Mrs. Ogun, who had been
married to her husband for six years with two
children.
On his role in the whole case, Mrs. Ogun?s
cousin, Kayode, said the woman just called
her one day, informing him that she wanted to
stage her own kidnap so that her husband
would agree to relocate her to the United
States since he is a citizen.
According to him, 'she told me to find one of
my friends who has a car and we would come
to her house in the evening of the day we
wanted to stage the kidnap.'
?When we even got to her house, she was the
one who walked out herself and entered the
car we brought, and we took her to the hotel
where she lodged for three days.'
?After that, we called her husband, asking for
N10million ransom, just to make the whole
plan look real, but we didn?t collect anything
from him.'
?However, I was arrested the following day
after she returned home; policemen came to
my office to arrest me, and we had no option
than to tell the police the truth,? Kayode said.
The suspects will be charged to Court pending
on when investigations are done.
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