Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have arrested a 17-year old boy, Ade Segun, for faking his own kidnap and demanding N2 million ransom from his parents.
The police spokesperson for Delta State, Bright Edafe, in a statement, confirmed that the teenager and his two friends, Precious and Nonso, who planned the fake kidnap with him are in police custody.
According to the statement: “The suspect, Ade Segun, planned his own kidnap alongside two of his friends, Precious and Nonso, called Ade’s parents, and demanded the sum of N2,000,000.
“The parents reported at the police station in Warri, where a woman police played along, pretending to pay the ransom money.
“When the undercover policemen got to the location, they laid ambush and one of them precious came to pick the money, he was rounded up and arrested, he took them to the hideout where Ade and his other friend were arrested and confessed that it was all planned.”