A teenager who arranged a kidnap of himself with the aim of diverting
his master’s Five hundred thousand naira (N500,000), has been arrested
up by police detectives in Ogun State.
Also arrested for alleged
complicity in the pseudo kidnap saga were two friends of the principal
suspect, who acted as members of a kidnap-for-ransom syndicate.
Adeboye
Micheal, 18, was said to have been sent to bank by his master, Oluwoju
Ojo Abiodun, to deposit the said sum but thereafter decided to do away
with the money and went further to make further demand of another
N500,000 through an arranged kidnap.
To accomplish his mission, it was gathered that, Michael contacted Nafiu Ojo and Abdullahi Lawal, who both acted as kidnappers.
While
this was going on, the principal suspect, apparently convinced that the
deal was flawless, lodged in a hotel with two girls, playing, ‘big boy’
with his master’s money.
Bubble later burst when his master,
Oluwoju Ojo Abiodun, made for Oke-Itoku Police Division in Abeokuta and
narrated how he sent his apprehentice, Michael, to bank with the said
sum, only to be stunned by the news of his ‘kidnap’ , a few hours later,
with the men behind the scene claiming to have collected the money from
him, and made an additional demand of N500,000 to make up their
N1million ransom.
According to a press release by the Ogun State
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, after a
preliminary investigation by men of Oke-Itoku Police Station, the case
was transferred to the Anti-Kidnapping Section of the State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) in Eleweran, whose
technical-based investigation trailed and apprehended Michael’s
collaborators on December 13, 2018.
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