Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested an 18-year-old boy, Adeboye Michael, and two of his friends, Nafiu Ojo and Abdullahi Lawal, for faking his kidnap in other to extort money from his master.
The arrest of the trio followed a complaint lodged at Oke-Itoku Police Station by one Oluwoju Ojo Abiodun, who reported that he sent his apprentice to the bank in order to deposit N500,000 only for him to receive a call after some hours that the boy had been kidnapped and that he should send the sum of one million naira for his release.
Abiodun started further that the acclaimed kidnappers told him that he only needed to balance them with the sum of N500,000 with him already.
Upon the report, a statement by the Ogun State Police Command said, the case was transferred to the Anti-Kidnapping Section in Eleweran after a preliminary investigation at Oke-Itoku.
The men of Anti-kidnapping section subsequently embarked on a technical based investigation and when the suspects discovered that their game will soon be up, the acclaimed victim emerged with series of story on his fake abduction.
Unknown to him that the Police are on the trail of his so-called abductor two days after, the duo of Ojo and Lawal were tracked down and apprehended on December 13, 2018.
On interrogation, they narrated how Michael contracted them to act as kidnappers and put a call through to his boss in order to make away with the N500,000 in his possession.
Upon their confession, Michael was subsequently arrested.
He made a confessional statement that he only lodged in an hotel with two girls where he squandered his boss’s money.
The leftover of N120,000 was recovered from him.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has directed that the suspect be arraigned before a court of competent jurisdiction as soon as the investigation is concluded.