{"id":7072,"date":"2022-04-15T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T11:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2022-04-15T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T11:57:33","slug":"clout-chase-gone-wrong-girl-arrested-for-false-rape-kidnap-alarm-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7072","title":{"rendered":"Clout Chase Gone Wrong: Girl Arrested For False Rape, Kidnap Alarm On Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, has confirmed that Toyosi Adesegun has been arrested for raising false kidnap and rape alarm on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 20-year-old girl was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command after the false alarm tweet went viral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7074\" src=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/919BDC81-BA54-4F40-AD96-3AB6CEC3E16F.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The PPRO added that three other persons, Olamilekan Faruk, Ayanfe Ayinde and Olusola Onipede, were arrested for restraining her against her will, a development that led to her false tweets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to Hundeyin,\u201dAfter a careful and extensive investigation, it was revealed that 20-year-old Toyosi Adesegun is a regular visitor to Olamilekan Faruk, Ayanfe Ayinde and Olusola Onipede at No 78, Obayan Street, Akoka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOn Thursday morning, she was restrained from leaving the apartment by the young men. Toyosi threatened to tweet what she tweeted if she was not allowed to leave. The young men called her bluff and she tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBased on the foregoing, the three men will be arraigned for wrongful restraint, while Toyosi will be arraigned for giving false information,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adesegun\u2019s tweet which went viral on Thursday, generated diverse reactions from social media users, who were worried about her safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She subsequently revealed in a follow-up tweet that her statement was false, and subsequently apologized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 20-year-old also released a video clip to confirm that she was safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI was not kidnapped or raped. I am fine and I am not making this video under duress or anything. I am very okay. I am in my house. Please stop calling or threatening those numbers. Thank you very much,\u201d she said in the clip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Many social media users condemned her action as some called for her arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, has confirmed that Toyosi Adesegun has been arrested for raising false kidnap and rape alarm on Twitter. The 20-year-old girl was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command after the false alarm tweet went viral. The PPRO added that three other persons, Olamilekan Faruk, Ayanfe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4230,4231,570,27,1391],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-clout-chasing","tag-false-alarm","tag-kidnap","tag-rape","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7075,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions\/7075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}