Why teenagers faked kidnap, demand ransom from parents

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 Lagos, July 17, 2023 – The Ondo state owned private security, Amotekun Corps has arrested two teenage girls for allegedly pretending to have been kidnapped.

Adetunji Adeleye, the state commander of the corps, stated this on Monday while parading over 20 other suspects in Akure.

He said that the girls ages 13 and 15, hid from their mother after faking self-abduction.

“The two (girls) hid themselves inside and began to call that they were kidnapped while demanding a ransom of N100,000 from their parents,” the Amotekun boss said.

The commander disclosed that the girls also threatened the town’s monarch to pay the ransom within 24 hours or they would kill the abductees in their custody.

According to him, the teenage girls were nabbed through a joint operation with the State Security Service (SSS) operatives after tracking the telephone line being used to make calls for their demand.

Upon interrogation, one of the girls said they spent a night in their grandmother’s place and left there around 6:00 a.m. after they had left the house.

She also confessed that they faked their kidnap following their mother’s attitude towards them.

“We left the house because my mother used to behave to us as if she’s not the one that gave birth to me, and we decided to collect money from her,” she added.

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