The Lagos state police command has arrested Misturah Bada, a 26-year-old housewife, and her accomplice, Adedamola Daniel, for allegedly staging her own kidnapping and extorting N2.5 million from her husband, who resides in South Africa.
The suspects were arrested by operatives of the command
special squad over offences bordering on false kidnapping, conspiracy and
extortion.
In a statement signed by Abimbola Adebisi, the state police
spokesperson, the case began on November 24 when the command received a
distress call from Bada, who reported that his wife had been kidnapped by armed
men demanding a ransom of N10 million, later reduced to N3 million.
“A sum of N2.5 million was subsequently paid by the husband,
an innocent Nigerian resident in South Africa, yet the supposed kidnappers
refused to release the victim,” the statement reads.
Following the report, the command deployed both human and
technical resources to track the alleged kidnappers.
Bada was later “released and reunited with her family” and
subsequently invited for debriefing.
According to the statement, during questioning, she claimed
that “she was kidnapped by six armed men driving a silver Toyota Venza”, taken
to their hideout and dispossessed of her iPhone 12 Pro Max.
She also stated that the ransom paid by her husband was
first transferred into her bank account before being handed over to the
kidnappers.
However, police said further investigation revealed “several
inconsistencies” in her account.
“On 3 December 2025, operatives arrested Adedamola Daniel in
the Ede area of Osun State. A SIM card used to register the WhatsApp account
through which ransom negotiations were conducted was recovered from him,” the
statement reads.
“During interrogation, he confessed that the suspect
Misturah Bada had requested the use of his SIM card to open the WhatsApp
account used for the ransom negotiations and that he provided the OTP sent to
his line, which enabled her to successfully operate the account.”
The police said Bada was later confronted with the findings
and “admitted to faking her own kidnapping in order to extort money from her
husband”.
“Further investigation led to the recovery of the iPhone 12
Pro Max, which Mrs. Bada had earlier claimed was with the kidnappers. The phone
was recovered from Yusuf Sodiq, aged 34, who admitted that he purchased the
phone from her at the rate of ₦380,000, having been warned not to insert any
SIM card into it at the time,” the statement added.
The police said investigation into the case is ongoing and
that Bada and her accomplice will be charged to court upon its conclusion.
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