23-year-old arrested for faking own abduction

A 23 -year- old boy, Edward Okache has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly faking his own abduction in Mowe axis of Obafemi-Owode local government area of the state.

Penpushing reports that, Command Public Relations Officer Abimbola Oyeyemi made this known in a statement adding that, the boy was arrested alongside his employed kidnappers which include: Asamoah Ernest, Isiah Uti, Ephraim Anyijor and charity Lukpata

The statement explained that the suspects were arrested following a report lodged at Mowe Divisional headquarters by one Comfort Okache who reported via phone call that his younger brother who traveled from Calabar to Lagos was kidnapped around Mowe area of Ogun State, and that the kidnappers were demanding for N10 million if the relations want to see the boy alive.

“Upon the report, the DPO Mowe division, SP Folake Afeniforo mobilized the division’s tactical teams and moved to the area.Upon painstaking and enduring combing of the surrounding bush at Orimerunmu area, the victim was sighted in an uncompleted building with the duo of Asamoah Ernest a Ghanaian and Isiah Uti, where he was tied in both hands and legs”, Oyeyemi added.

Penpushing further reports that, the command added in the press statement that the two suspects found with him were promptly arrested, while the victim was rescued, stressing that on getting to the station, the two arrested suspects made a shocking revelation that the so- called victim was the person who planned with them to kidnap him in order for him to extort money from his parents to invest on an online business.

The police spokesman, said the suspects confessed that the so -called victim was introduced to them by Ephraim Anyijor and Charity Lukpata who are from the same Yala local government area of Cross River as the victim, and that they are part of the planned kidnap of Edward Ochace, adding that their confession led to the arrest of Ephraim Anyijor and charity Lukpata,who all confessed  to the commission of the crime.

Penpushing also reports that the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspects be transferred to Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible prosecution.

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