The Lagos police command has arrested one Ataghar Namdoo for staging her own kidnap.
According to a statement by the command’s public relations officer DSP Bala Elkana, 26 year Ataghar and her Male friend’s aim was to extort her employer.
On the 9th of January at about 5:30pm, the suspect conspired with her boyfriend Emmanuel Idu and Okpe David to produce a short video of herself blindfolded and driven to a bush in a truck.
In the video, the mother of one, was seen in a bush at Sangotedo area in Ajah, being threatened by a man wearing a mask and holding a Jack knife.
The abductors were demanding a ten million naira ransom in the video.
The police say the two videos were sent to her employer with a threat to kill her and also go after the employer’s family if they failed to pay the ransom.
