The Ondo State Security Organization, otherwise called the Amotekun Corps, has captured no less than 28 individuals for supposed association in different violations in certain pieces of the state.
Two high school students were arrested for allegedly faking their kidnapping and demanding a ransom from their mother, making them one of the suspected criminals.
Strutting the suspects at the base camp of the order in Akure, the state capital, on Tuesday, the state Administrator, Adetunji Adeleye, said the two female students were 13 and 15 years of age and were in JSS1 and JSS3 separately.
As indicated by the authority, the suspects concealed some place at Oka-Akoko, South-West Nearby Government Region of the state and called their mom, claiming to be ruffians who kidnapped them and requested N100,000.
Ammunition-laden truck headed for Anambra is stopped by the army.Adeleye went on to say that the girls called their town’s monarch pretending to be kidnappers and threatened to kill the kidnapped people if he didn’t pay the ransom within 24 hours.
He said, “The 28 suspects we are strutting today shows that we have more hijacking than some other crimes. This is in continuation of our endeavors at guaranteeing that seizing in Ondo State turns into a relic of times gone by.
“We have individuals who grabbed themselves and brought alert and up in our persevering examinations, we had the option to unwind the secret encompassing their vanishing to the degree that they have admitted.”
The Amotekun manager noticed that the capture of the suspects was as a team with the agents of the Division of State Administrations as the phone line being utilized by the young ladies was followed to where they were stowing away.
One of the girls confessed, claiming that her older sister had enticed her to commit the crime.
The 13-year-old young lady said, “On that day, my sister and I went through the night in our grandmother’s place and left there around 6am the next day.
My sister informed me that she had a plan to obtain money from our mother while we were returning home.
She then announced her intention to declare us kidnapped and demanded N50,000 for each of us as a ransom from our mother. When she called my mother, it was my sister who taught me what to say.
“When we called, we didn’t know that the monarch was talking to us on the phone when we said we would kill our captives if they didn’t pay the ransom quickly,”
