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The Lagos state police command has arrested an 18-year-old girl identified as Ujunwa Offiah, for conspiring with her boy (Details below)
The Lagos state police command has arrested an 18-year-old girl identified as Ujunwa Offiah, for conspiring with her boyfriend Ifesinachi Blessed, 26, a resident of Coker area of Lagos State, to fake her kidnap and demand N30 million from her family.
The police also arrested Ifesinachi’s other girlfriend identified as Precious Chukwu, 22, whose phone was reportedly used to negotiate with offiah’s family.
The suspects were arrested by operatives attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department, CID of the command.
While Ifesinachi who is a driver with one of the cab-hailing services, is said to be at large, it was gathered that he pretended to be a kidnapper and demanded for ransom of N30 million from Offiah’s family.
The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, while parading the suspects at the command headquarters on Monday December 7, said;
“This is a case of conspiracy and staged kidnapping, and the man at the centre of this case, who happens to be a Uber driver, is still at large. We are going after him because he conspired with one of these two ladies, Offiah, who faked her kidnap.
“He cleverly used the phone of another girlfriend, Precious (Chukwu), to contact Offiah’s family, informing them that their daughter had been kidnapped.
“He requested N30m from Offiah’s family to get her freed and during negotiations, which involved the police, they settled for N700,000. While the money was being dropped, we took action and in the process arrested Offiah and Precious.”
Speaking to newsmen, Offiah said she joked about the kidnap but was surprised that Ifesinachi took it seriously.
She said “I met Ifesinachi in October, and when we got talking, I jokingly told him to kidnap me so that he would collect ransom from my sister. I never knew that he took it seriously until he told me he had gone to the village to meet a native doctor and also discussed with his guys about the deal. When he said he was ready, he realised that I was scared and threatened to kill me if I informed anybody of the plan.”
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