The Lagos state police command on
Monday paraded some suspects, including Dorcas Adilewa, a 19-year-old girl who
allegedly faked her kidnap to defraud her father.
Imohimi Edgal, the state
commissioner of police, said Adilewa planned with one Ifeoluwa Ogunbanjo, her
friend, who allegedly provided her with a phone.
According to Edgal, Adilewa
called her father, Adilewa Taiwo, demanding N600,000 ransom while claiming that
she had been kidnapped.
Edgal said the suspects were
arrested on July 13 following a report by Taiwo at Ketu police station.
“On July 7 at about 5 p.m., Adilewa
Taiwo of No. 3, Kosumi Lane, Bello-Ketu, Lagos, reported at Ketu police station
that he received a call from phone number 09057432362,” Edgal said.
Edgal |
“He was told that his daughter,
Dorcas Adilewa, was being held hostage and that if he does not want her killed,
he should pay a ransom of N600,000 to secure her release.
“Investigation into the case
commenced immediately and the above phone number that was used by the suspects
was geo-located to Ijebu-Igbo area of Ogun state.
“The O/C Anti-Kidnapping led his
operatives to Ijebu-Igbo on July 12 and combed the area in search of the
supposed victim till the following morning.
“When the fake kidnappers
realised that the police were closing in on them, the supposed victim decided to
call the complainant to inform him that she has been released, after he had
deposited the sum of N8,000 naira in her UBA account number: 2087804991.”
Speaking to journalists during
the parade, Adilewa said she planned her kidnap in order to source money for
her mother whom she says needed to repay a loan.
“I wanted to help my mummy. She
collected loan from cooperative and has not been able to pay back. I connived
with her to lie to my father that I was kidnapped,” Adilewa said.
Edgal said when Adilewa was being
debriefed upon her release, she confessed that she planned the fake kidnap with
Ogunbanjo.
“Investigation is in progress and
on completion, the suspects will be charged to court accordingly,” he said.
However, Ogunbanjo said she was
not part of the kidnap plan.
“She called me to come and carry
her in our bustop but she came to my side at Ijebu Igbo that told my mother
that she was kidnapped, so my mum gave her food to eat. Later, she asked me if
i had airtime on my phone, I gave her the phone and she went outside to make a
call not knowing that she went to demand money from her mum and dad,” Ogunbanjo
said.
“I met her in church, white
garment church at Ketu. I asked her what she was doing at Ijebu-Igbo and she
told me she entered kidnapper’s vehicle and that she escaped and came to
Ijebu-Igbo straight.
“So, my mum gave her N500 naira
and she called her daddy to send N1000 to her so that she can come home. None
of us has an account, so I went to get my neighbour’s account number. Thank
God, she did not used the account eventually and I didn’t know her daddy had
already sent N8000 to her won account. It was because she used my phone to call
that I was taken with her.”
Among the suspects paraded was
another girl who confessed to killing four people.
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