The suspects. Photo: Police
The Ogun State Police Command says its operatives have arrested eight foreign nationals operating a self-kidnapping scheme to extort money from their families abroad in Adiyan town, in the Agbado area of the state.
PUNCH Metro learnt on Monday from the spokesperson for the command, Oluseyi Babaseyi, that the arrest followed an intelligence-led operation into a reported kidnapping case.
Babaseyi stated that preliminary investigations revealed that the acclaimed kidnapping was a staged abduction aimed at extorting money from unsuspecting family members.
He identified the suspects as 34-year-old Zakaria Zawadogo from Burkina Faso, 23-year-old Cheik El-Mehdi from Mauritania, 25-year-old Suren Neta from the Ivory Coast, and 36-year-old Koffi Breno from the Ivory Coast.
