Crime
Teenager fakes own kidnap, demands N2m
A 17-year-old boy, named Ade Segun, has been arrested with his friends, Precious and Nonso, over a planned kidnap in Delta state.
This was disclosed on Twitter, by the spokesperson of the Delta state police command, DSP Bright Edafe, on Friday.
He said, “The suspect, Ade Segun, planned his own kidnap alongside two of his friends, Precious and Nonso, called Ade’s parents, and demanded the sum of #2,000,000.
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“The parents reported at the police station in Warri, where a woman police played along, pretending to pay the ransom money.
“When the undercover policemen got to the location, they ambushed and one of them, Precious, came to pick the money.
“He was rounded up and arrested. He took them to the hideout where Ade and his other friend were arrested and confessed that it was all planned.”
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