The ‘victim’ who reportedly masterminded the abduction with her boyfriend, 30-year-old Afolabi Ogunremi, Adebayo, went on to demand N200,000 as ransom from her parents, a sum police reports suggests she intended to celebrate her birthday with.
According to a release made available by Ogun State Police Command spokesman, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, in Abeokuta yesterday, Miss Toheebat was reportedly kidnapped in Lafenwa area of Abeokuta, the state capital.
Her parents reported her disappearance to the police, explaining that she left home to the market but did not return. They later received a called from an unknown number and an unknown man informed them that their daughter had been kidnapped.
“Upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the area, Kayode Ayilara, led his detectives on a technical investigation of the case, which led them to an abandoned house inside the GRA, Ibara area of Abeokuta, where the girl was being kept,” Spokesman, Oyeyemi said.
“The discovery led to the arrest of Adebayo who happened to be the security man in the house. The suspect claimed to be the boyfriend of the girl and that they both planned to simulate her kidnap in order to raise money for her forthcoming birthday from the parents.”
According to Oyeyemi, Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, had ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the Anti-kidnapping and Cultists unit of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation. The commissioner also advised parents to train their children properly so that they would not become an embarrassment to them later, Guardian reports.
Desperate times indeed calls for desperate measures. But stories like this leave us wondering if some people don’t see the obvious line between desperation and outright idiocy.
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