23-YEAR-OLD MAN FAKES HIS KIDNAP, DEMANDS 10 MILLION NAIRA RANSOM TO START ONLINE BUSINESS IN OGUN STATE

A 23-year-old man, Edward Okache, has been arrested by Men of the Ogun state police command for faking his kidnap and asking his gang to demand N10 million ransom from his family.

According to reliable information, Okocha carried out the act with a view to getting N10m fund to start an online business and as such he contacted four others: Asamoah Ernest, Isiah Uti, Ephraim Anyijor and charity Lukpata to execute the fake kidnap.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement, The PPRO explained that the suspects were arrested following a report lodged at Mowe divisional headquarters by one Comfort Okache.

He said Okache reported through a phone call that his younger brother who traveled from Calabar to Lagos was kidnapped around Mowe area of Ogun state.

He said, “Upon the report, the DPO Mowe division, SP Folake Afeniforo mobilized the division’s tactical teams and moved to the area.

Upon painstaking and enduring combing of the surrounding bush at Orimerunmu area, the victim was sighted in an uncompleted building with the duo of Asamoah Ernest, a Ghanaian, and Isiah Uti, where he was tied in both hands and legs.

“But on getting to the station, the two arrested suspects made a shocking revelation that the so-called victim was the person who planned with them to kidnap him for him to extort money from his parents to invest in an online business.

“They stated further that the so-called victim was introduced to them by Ephraim Anyijor and Charity Lukpata who are from the same Yala Local Government Area of Cross River as the victim, and that they are all part of the planned kidnap of Edward Ochace.