A teenager, Chisom Igbokwe, has been arrested by operatives of the anti-kidnapping unit of the Imo State Police Command for faking his own kidnap.
Read also: Soldier fakes his own kidnap to go on illegal operation
18-year-old Igbokwe, alongside three of his accomplices, Solomon Chinonso, Chijioke Nnadi and Michael Nwaotu conspired to fake his abduction and extorted N500,000 from his grandfather.
While parading them, the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Ezike, said, “On October 23, operatives of the command’s anti-kidnapping unit, acting on information, arrested the following suspects in connection with the fake kidnapping of Chisom Igbokwe on Spibat Road, Akwakuma in the Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State.
“The suspects have made useful statements confessing that they conspired to fake the kidnapping in order to collect ransom from his grandfather.”
Confessing to the crime, Igbokwe, who just finished his secondary school education, blamed the devil for his action, and expressed regret for faking his own abduction.
