An Abuja-based security guard identified as Sunday has narrated how he staged a self-kidnapping scheme to extort N4m from his family because he needed money to travel to his village for Christmas.
Sunday disclosed this in an interrogation video shared on Facebook on Wednesday by the Federal Capital Territory Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh.
According to Adeh, Sunday allegedly used his friend’s phone to reach out to his family, informing them that he had been kidnapped and that his abductors were demanding N4m as ransom.
The PPRO noted that the suspect carried out the act without informing the friend whose phone he used. When his family later contacted the friend to appeal for a reduction in the ransom and pleaded that Sunday should not be killed, the friend was shocked.
Adeh added that when the friend realised that he had been falsely implicated, he reported the matter to the police, leading to Sunday’s arrest.
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Adeh said, “Sunday staged his own kidnapping and demanded a ransom of N4 million from his family using his colleague’s phone because he needed money to travel to the East for the Christmas holidays.
“He called his parents with his friend’s phone, demanding the sum of N4m and alleging that the friend had kidnapped him. [The Punch]
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