Ondo secondary school girls arrested for faking kidnap, demanding ransom from mother

Operatives of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, Codenamed Amotekun Corps, have arrested two secondary school girls (name withheld) for allegedly feigning their kidnap and demanding ransom from their parents.

The girls who are from the same parents were arrested by Amotekun in Oka-Akoko, Akoko South-West Local Government Area of Ondo State, and were in JSS 3 and SSS 1 classes.

It was gathered that the girls, ages 13 and 15, hid somewhere and called their mother, pretending as kidnappers who abducted her daughters.

The Corps Commander, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, further explained to newsmen at Corps Headquarters in Akure, the state capital on Monday that the girls demanded N100,000 from their mother.

Adeleye disclosed that the girls also threatened their mother and the monarch of the town to kill the abductees in their custody if the ransom is not paid within 24 hours.

Narrating how they planned the operation to newsmen, the younger sister disclosed that she and her sister spent the night in their grandma’s place and left the place around 6:00 am.

According to her, on their way home, her elder sister informed her that she had a plan to get money from their mother and revealed her plan to declare themselves kidnapped and asked for N50,000 ransom from their mother.

She said, “It was my sister that taught me what to say when we put a call through to our mother. We didn’t know that it was the monarch that was speaking with us on the phone when we threatened to kill our captives if they failed to pay the ransom quickly.”