Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command at Ikot Akpanabia State Headquarters have detained one Imaobong Francis Sampson, and her boyfriend, Beltus Ebong, for staging her own kidnap.
The state’s Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. Waheed Ayilara, paraded Sampson, from Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area among other criminal suspects over sundry crimes including murder, cultism, armed robbery, and trafficking in children over the weekend.
Narrating what led to her detention, the suspect said she staged her own abduction to raise cash to solve myriad of problems including feeding, debts and other prevailing challenges during this difficult time.
Sampson said, “Because of this difficult period, I had to stage fake kidnapping of myself, demanding N4 million from my Aunty who lives abroad,” she confessed in an interview with Journalists.
The CP, while explaining how how team busted the fraud said “the Anti-Kidnapping Squad (AKS) received a report on 11th March, 2024 from one…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
