Admin l Friday, July 24, 2018
IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – A 19 year old girl, called called Dorcas Adilewa was today paraded before reporters in Ikeja, Lagos for orchestrating her own kidnap and demanding N600,000 as ransom from her father.
“On the 12/07/2018 at about 1700hrs, one Adilewa Taiwo ‘m’ of No.3, Kosumi Lane, Bello-Ketu, Lagos reported at Ketu police station that on the same date at about 1500hrs, he was at Odogbolu in Ogun State attending a burial rite when he received a call from phone number 09057432362 telling him that, his daughter, Dorcas Adilewa ‘f’ 19 years was being held hostage by them and that if he does not want her killed, he should pay a ransom of the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (N600,OOO.00) to secure her release. The case was immediately transferred to the Anti-Kidnapping Section, SCIID, Panti for discreet investigation”, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos, Mr. Edgal Imohimi told reporters.
According to him, investigation into the case was immediately commenced 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 12/07/2018 at about 2200hrs and combed the area in search of the supposed victim till the following morning of 13/07/2018. While the search was ongoing at Ijbu-Igbo, the location of the supposed kidnappers changed on the morning of 13/07/2018 to Ikotun in Lagos and the search party had to move from Ijebu-Igbo to IKotun in Lagos to rescue the victim.
“When the fake kidnappers realized 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 Eight thousand (N8,OOO.00) naira in her UBA’s account number: 2087804991.
“When the said Dorcas Adilewa was being debriefed upon her release, she confessed by revealing that, she actually planned with her friend, one Ifeoluwa Ogunbanjo who provided her with accommodation at No. 174, Adeboye road, Okesopin, Ijebu Igbo in Ogun State to hide and the phone that they used in demanding for the ransom of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (N600, 000.00). Her reason was to extort money from her father”, the police said, adding that investigation is in progress and on completion, suspects will be charged to court accordingly, the CP said.
