The Police in Minna, Niger State has apprehended a couple for alleged stage managed kidnapping.
The 31 year old woman, Sadiya Ibrahim Umar, alongside her husband,
Mohammed Mohammed, allegedly conspired to fake her own kidnap and collected the sum of one million naira(1m) from her father.
Public Relations Officer of the Niger State Police Command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, who disclosed this in a statement in Minna on Friday, said the couple who are residents of Chanchaga Local Government Area of
the state were arrested on July 22, in Limawa area of Minna metropolis.
“On 15/07/2021 at about 1200hrs, the said Sadiya was reported to have been kidnapped by unknown
person(s) having boarded a tricycle at Challenge junction, Maitumbi in Bosso Local Government Area of the State going to Old Airport road Minna after closing from work at Umar Bin Khattab International School Maitumbi” the PPRO stated.
“On 16/07/2021, the father of the said Sadiya lbrahim Umar was contacted by an unknown caller demanding for N5million ransom which was later reduced to N1million and was dropped at a location in Rafin-Yashi, within the council area (Bosso LGA) on the outskirts of Minna for the anonymous caller
“During interrogation by the Police, she confessed to have conspired with her husband, Mohammed, the first suspect to fake her kidnap and she was taken to Nugupi village via Paiko in Paikoro Local Government Area of the state, where she was kept by her husband at his friend’s place“
Speaking while being paraded in Minna, Sadiya’s husband, Mohammed said he decided to plan the fake kidnap because he needed money to start up a cement dealing business which will gulp about one point five million naira, emphasizing that nobody was ready to give him the money.
The PPRO assured that the case was still under investigation by the Police Operatives attached to the SCID, Minna, while effort is ongoing to arrest the said Abdullahi.
“This is the third of its kind in recent times where such crimes were faked” Abiodun concluded.
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