Akwa Ibom Police apprehend the woman who "kidnapped" herself, 52 others.

In the past month, four abduction victims have been rescued by Akwa Ibom police. A woman who staged her own kidnapping is among them.

52 suspects were also detained for various kinds of crimes.

Waheed Ayilara, the state’s commissioner of police, informed reporters in Uyo on Friday that a few of the offenses included fraud, cultism, kidnapping, child trafficking armed robbery, and murder.

He added that one of the alleged “victims” of the kidnapping, a woman from Nung Oku village in Akwa Ibom’s Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area, had actually planned the kidnapping herself.

After that, she sought a ransom of N4 million, but the police arrested her.

“A report was received on Monday from one Enobong Sampson that her sister had been kidnapped and that the kidnappers were demanding N4m as ransom.

“As a result, operatives of Anti-kidnapping Squad of the Command embarked on an intense and intelligence-driven operation to track down the kidnappers and rescue the victim.
“On Tuesday, however, the purported victim and her boyfriend were arrested at a hideout at Mbierebe Obio, Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area.

According to Ayilara, “She confessed to have conspired with her boyfriend and three others to proclaim her kidnap to raise money from her aunty based outside the country.”

He continued by saying that a guy was taken into custody by police on Wednesday in Uruting village, Okobo Local Government Area, for the murder of his father, who was 75 years old, with a machete.

According to the police commissioner, the suspect’s rationale was that his late father had sold every piece of land he owned, including the one he had given him to build his home.

Ayilara added that on March 8, police arrested a man in Ayam village, located in Etinan Local Government Area, on suspicion of producing counterfeit goods and contaminated fruit beverages.

Additionally on March 8, police saved and apprehended a man who was about to be set ablaze but for the intervention of police officers and had been defrauding innocent citizens using Point of Sale devices.

Ayilara reported that N350,000 in cash was found on the man at the time of arrest, and the majority of his victims had identified him.

The police commissioner promised that as soon as the investigations are finished, all of the accused would be charged.