Girl, 20, who planned own kidnap with boyfriend, arrested

A 20-year-old girl, who allegedly planned to kidnap herself through her boyfriend, has been arrested by the police in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

The suspect, Toheebat Adebayo, was reportedly kidnapped by her parents on September 27. But police investigation revealed that it was a planned kidnap that Adebayo allegedly did in connivance with her boyfriend, Afolabi Ogunremi, 30 years old.

According to police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, “The parents had complained that the girl left home for the Lafenwa market but did not return home, only for them to be called on phone by an unknown man who informed them that their daughter had been kidnapped.

“The so-called kidnapper then demanded the sum of N200,000 as ransom. Upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer Chief Superintendent of Police Kayode Ayilara, led his detectives on a technical investigation of the case, which led them to an abandoned house inside the

Government Reservation Area where the girl was being kept.”

The police spokesman added that following the hideout discovery, Ogunremi, who happened to be the security man in the house, was arrested.

“On interrogation, Afolabi claimed to be the boyfriend of the girl (Tohebat) and that they both planned to simulate her kidnap in order to raise money for her forthcoming birthday from the parents,”he said.

The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the Anti-Kidnapping and Cultists Unit of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation.