FAKE KIDNAP: MISSING OGUN PREGNANT WOMAN ALLEGEDLY ABDUCTED FOUND - POLICE REPORTS

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The Ogun State Police Command, on Monday, said a pregnant woman, Rahemat Lateef, who claimed to have been abducted by some unknown gunmen while going to the state hospital at Ijaiye, Abeokuta for child delivery, is a case of fake kidnap

However, the Ogun State Police Command declared on Monday that this was a case of false kidnapping.

SP Omolola Odutola, the state police command’s spokesman, revealed this on her X handle on Monday.

According to Odutola, the woman chose to stage her kidnapping after learning that she had experienced another miscarriage in order to save her husband’s fury, who was understandably expecting her to go to bed. It was said that Mrs. Lateef fled to Kwara State and returned to Abeokuta with her father.

It was learnt that the housewife was said to have been frustrated due to repeated miscarriages and cooked up the kidnap story as an escape route.

Odutola while giving updates on the incident said, “Rahemat Lateef who the husband reported abducted, was never abducted, but planned her journey to Kwara State, to escape the wrath of her husband, because she has remained unlucky due to miscarriages.

“She planned the stories, she travelled to Kwara State herself, she was far from kidnap. She had a miscarriage, was frustrated due to repeated recurrences, and feared her husband’s reactions, so she orchestrated the script. The anti-kidnapping team started tracking her, till she showed up.

“She is under medical attention, safe,” she added.

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Rahemat’s husband, Ogunbunmi Lateef, had last week Thursday claimed to have received a WhatsApp message notifying him of his wife’s kidnap by some abductors.

Odutola while confirming the report on her X handle had said, “One Ogunbunmi Lateef of Oke Lantoro reported that his pregnant wife due for delivery left home for the State Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta.

“He received a WhatsApp message confirming the abduction of his wife by unknown armed men.”