A 23-year-old boy, Edward Okache has arranged his own abduction by some men in Ogun state so as to raise a ransom of N10 million from his parents.
Edward’s sibling, Comfort Okache had earlier made a report at the Mowe divisional headquarters via a phone call that his younger brother, travelling from Calabar to Lagos, had been kidnapped around Mowe area of Ogun State.
On Monday, the police said Okache was nabbed with four others identified as: Asamoah Ernest, Isiah Uti, Ephraim Anyijor and Charity Lukpata, whom he told to kidnap him.
Ogun State Police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi stated that the kidnappers demanded a sum of N10 million if the relatives wanted to see the boy alive.
After receiving the report, Naija News understands that DPO of Mowe division, SP Folake Afeniforo, had mobilized the division’s tactical teams to the area.
He said, “Upon painstaking and enduring combing of the surrounding bush at Orimerunmu area, the victim was sighted in an uncompleted building with the…
