Crime
Man nabbed for faking own kidnap
Police operatives in the FCT, Abuja have arrested a 28-year-old man identified as Pascal Akuh for allegedly faking his own kidnap.
Akuh was among the suspects paraded at the command’s HQ in Abuja on March 20 by the FCT Commissioner of Police.
According to the CP, “On March 14, 2023 at about 5:30pm, Akuh Chinemezeh reported at Apo Divisional HQ that his younger brother, one Pascal Akuh, 28 years called him saying he was arrested by Police & taken to SCID custody.
On the strength of this, the police & suspect’s family went to SCID, IRT and FCID detention facilities, only to discover that he is not in any of the aforementioned facilities.
With the help of a tracker using coordinates, the suspect’s vehicle was traced to an area in Wumba, Apo.
Acting on this intelligence they traced the suspect to a hotel in Lokogoma later in the night and arrested the suspect.
During interrogation, the suspect confessed that he only faked his own kidnap to prank the lady he intended to marry to know if she really loves him.”
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