{"id":8977,"date":"2022-06-11T22:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T22:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2022-06-11T22:30:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T22:30:57","slug":"lawma-worker-fakes-kidnap-accomplice-demands-n5m-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8977","title":{"rendered":"LAWMA Worker Fakes Kidnap, Accomplice Demands N5m Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A worker with the Lagos Waste Management Authority, Rafiu Rahaman, has been arrested for faking his kidnap and demanding N5m ransom from his co-workers in Lagos State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This was contained in a statement by the state police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hundeyin said after Rahaman faked his kidnapping, he travelled to Lugbe, Abuja, where he made a video of himself in captivity and sent it to one of his co- workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0The PPRO said Rahaman\u2019s accomplice, Usman Sheidu, subsequently demanded N5m ransom and N150,000 was paid to him after extensive negotiation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0He said, \u201cDetectives of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Lagos, have arrested one Rafiu Rahaman, an employee of the Lagos Waste Management Authority in Lagos for faking his kidnap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cRahaman, after faking his kidnap, travelled to Lugbe, Abuja, where he made a video of himself in captivity, which was sent to his co-worker. His accomplice Usman Sheidu, who demanded N5m ransom but got N150,000 after extensive negotiation has equally been arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cInvestigation reveals that Usman Sheidu, who was arrested in Abuja, conspired with Rahaman to self-stage the kidnap and make the video that was sent to the co-workers for ransom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hundeyin said Usman, during interrogation, confessed to have shared the ransom equally with Rahaman and used his share in acquiring a generator and other items for himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSuspects will be arraigned in court at the conclusion of the investigations. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, while commending the detectives for a job well done, reassures Lagosians that perpetrators of crimes will not go undetected and unpunished,\u201d the PPRO said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A worker with the Lagos Waste Management Authority, Rafiu Rahaman, has been arrested for faking his kidnap and demanding N5m ransom from his co-workers in Lagos State. This was contained in a statement by the state police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Friday. Hundeyin said after Rahaman faked his kidnapping, he travelled to Lugbe, Abuja, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5198,5197,5196,4350],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-accomplice","tag-fake-kidnap","tag-lawma","tag-ransom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977"}],"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=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8978,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions\/8978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}