A Chief Magistrates’ court sitting in Ilorin on Friday ordered that a housewife
and two accomplices who allegedly faked their own kidnap, be remanded in a
correctional centre.
The police arraigned Odunayo Olaniyi, Abdulrauf Folorunso, and Afolabi
Adesina with three counts of self kidnap, false representation and for asking
for ransom.
The Chief Magistrate, Ibrahim Dasuki, who gave the order, also remanded
Folorunso and Adesina.
Dasuki adjourned the case until Oct. 10, for hearing.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Nasir Yusuf, told the court that on
Sept. 19, the complainant, and the defendant’s husband, Segun, who works at
the Kwara Road Traffic Management Authority Ilorin, reported the case at the
Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Police Headquarters, Ilorin.
Yusuf said that Segun told police that he received a message from his wife,
Odunayo, that she had been kidnapped.
He alleged that the defendant also told the complainant that their 10-year-old
son, was kidnapped and the abductors are demanding for N500,000.
Yusuf said that during discreet investigation, the police discovered that
Odunayo, Folorunso and Adesina, faked the kidnap.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 9, 14, and 12 of
the Kwara state Prohibition of Kidnapping Law 2010.
They pleaded not guilty.
