MAN ABDUCTED SOMEONE TO DEMAND RANSOM FROM HIS PARENTS TO START ONLINE BUSINESS

A 23-year-old man accuses himself of abducting someone in Ogun in order to demand N10 million from his parents to launch an online business

Asamoah Ernest, Isiah Uti, Ephraim Anyijor, and Charity Lukpata, along with a 23-year-old man named Edward Okache, were all detained on October 10 for staging their own kidnapping.

The suspects were detained in response to a report made by Comfort Okache, who claimed over the phone that her younger brother, who had traveled from Calabar to Lagos, had been abducted in the Mowe area of Ogun state and that the kidnappers were demanding N10 million from her family in order to let them see the boy alive.

Following the report, SP Folake Afeniforo of the DPO Mowe division assembled the tactical teams for the division and moved to the scene. The victim was discovered in an unfinished building with the pair of Ghanaian Asamoah Ernest and Isiah Uti, where he was tied in both hands and legs, after a painstaking and exhausting search of the nearby bush in the Orimerunmu area.

The victim was saved, and the two suspects who were discovered with him were quickly taken into custody. But once they arrived at the station, the two suspects made the shocking admission that the alleged victim was actually the one who conspired to kidnap him in order to force his parents to give them money to invest in an online business.

All of them have admitted to committing the crime. The state commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered that the suspects be transferred to the anti-kidnapping unit of the state criminal investigation departments for additional investigation and potential prosecution, according to SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson for the state police command.