Crime
Amotekun arrests two secondary school students for faking their own kidnap
Two secondary school students, who allegedly faked their abduction to extort money from their mother have been nabbed by operatives of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, known as Amotekun Corps.
The two female teenagers, who were apprehended in Oka-Akoko, headquarters of Akoko South-West Local Council of the state, were in hiding for 3 days before they were apprehended.
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The students, ages 13 and 15, who are in JSS 3 and SSS 1 classes respectively, confessed to the crime at the state headquarters of Amotekun Corps in Akure, the state capital on Monday.
According to the minors, who are siblings, they planned to act in order to get back at their mother, whom they accused of maltreating them.
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