Housewife who Staged her own kidnapped Arrested

A housewife identified as Sule Nana was arrested by the Ekiti State Police Command for allegedly faking her own kidnapping and demanding ransom from her husband.

Command spokesperson ASP Sunday Abutu, who paraded her alongside other suspects, said she was arrested by men from the Rapid Respond Squad after a full and intensive investigation.
According to the PPRO, the incident happened on Saturday.

He said RRS agents received a distress call from Nana indicating that she had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen along the Ifaki-Oye-Ekiti road.

He said: “On 11/20/2021 at around 10:30 am, a distress call was received from a Sule Nana ‘f’ that she was kidnapped by unknown gunmen along the Ifaki / Oye road. -Ekiti alongside other passengers.

She called her husband that the kidnappers demanded a ransom of fifty thousand naira (# 50,000: 00) before she could be released.

RRS agents, upon receiving the complaint, took action by raking the bush along Ifaki / Oye-Ekiti before later discovering that Sule Nana kidnapped herself to obtain money from his relatives. She confessed to committing the crime.

According to the suspect, she decided to plan her own kidnapping in order to get money from her husband and relatives before being arrested.
She said: “I needed the money but saw no help and decided to schedule my kidnapping where I will collect a ransom. I called my husband to demand a 50,000 N ransom and in the process I was arrested.