The housewife was recently paraded alongside 12 other suspects for various crimes
by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abiodun Odude at the Police
Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan.
According to
the Police boss, the 37-year-old businesswoman was arrested with two men
who she had conspired with, among whom was her cousin, Kayode
Adepoju, who helped in orchestrating her own kidnap in order to
fraudulently obtain money from her husband.
The commissioner told journalists that the incident happened at about 7:45 p.m.
on Tuesday, July 4, when three armed hoodlums stormed the residence of
the supposed victim and ?kidnapped? her to an unknown destination.
?Barely four hours later, the suspects contacted the victim?s husband, demanding for N10million as ransom as a condition for his wife?s release.
?Unknown
to the husband that the kidnap was actually arranged by his wife, he
reported the case to the police, and upon the receipt, operatives of the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) began a manhunt for the hoodlums.
?During
an intensive investigation, two suspects were arrested, and they let
the cat out of the bag, as operatives were stunned to discover that the
victim was the architect of the fake kidnap.
?The
woman, for the three days she was away, lodged in a hotel at
Imalefalafia area, Ibadan, while efforts were on to rescue her, but
after two of the suspects were eventually arrested in their criminal
hideout at Imalefalafia area, they confessed to the crime and the
mastermind was arrested,? the police boss said.
Confessing
to the crime, she said she called her cousin, Kayode, informing him
that she wanted her husband to relocate her to the United States, so
wanted to stage her own kidnap so, after her rescue, her husband would
be left with no option than to send her abroad.
?So
I left home on Tuesday, July 4, and returned on Thursday, July 6,
acting as if I was kidnapped. It was then that my husband started
calling about that I had been kidnapped before finally informing the
police.
?Everything is still like a child?s
play; he is an American citizen and I just wanted him to relocate me to
the US. I told the gang to demand for N10million from my husband; I knew
he could not afford that kind of money, but just for the whole plan to
look real.
?And within the three days I was
away, I lodged myself in a hotel, but I regret everything now,? Mrs.
Ogun, who had been married to her husband for six years with two
children.
On his role in the whole case, Mrs.
Ogun?s cousin, Kayode, said the woman just called her one day, informing
him that she wanted to stage her own kidnap so that her husband would
agree to relocate her to the United States since he is a citizen.
According
to him, 'she told me to find one of my friends who has a car and we
would come to her house in the evening of the day we wanted to stage the
kidnap.'
?When we even got to her house, she
was the one who walked out herself and entered the car we brought, and
we took her to the hotel where she lodged for three days.'
?After
that, we called her husband, asking for N10million ransom, just to make
the whole plan look real, but we didn?t collect anything from him.'
?However,
I was arrested the following day after she returned home; policemen
came to my office to arrest me, and we had no option than to tell the
police the truth,? Kayode said.
The suspects will be charged to Court pending on when investigations are done.
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