A house wife identified as Sule Nana, has been arrested for faking her own kidnap, demanding a N50,000 ransom from her husband in Ekiti state.

The suspect was arrested by men of the Rapid Response Squad of the state police command after she made a distress call o November 20, to her husband telling him that she had been kidnapped along Ifaki-Oye-Ekiti road.

The state PPRO, ASP Sunday Abutu who paraded the house wife alongside other suspects on Wednesday, November 24 in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital said;

“On 20/11/2021 at about 1030hrs, a distress call was received from one *Sule Nana* ‘f’ that she was kidnapped by unknown gunmen along Ifaki/Oye-Ekiti road alongside other passengers.

“She called her husband that the kidnappers were demanding for a sum of fifty thousand naira (#50,000:00) ransom before she could be released. The RRS Operatives, upon the receipt of the complaint, swung into action by combing the bush along Ifaki/Oye-Ekiti before it was later discovered that Sule Nana kidnapped herself to get money from her relatives. She has confessed to the commission of the crime.”

The suspect who spoke to newsmen said;

“I needed some money but I could not see any helper and I decided to plan my abduction where I will collect ransom. I called my husband to demand N50,000 ransom and in the process, I was arrested.”