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Operatives of the Zonal Anti-Piracy Unit led by SP Mariam Ogunmolasuyi arrested a lady, Ruth Livinus, age 28, who masterminded her own kidnap through technology.
Ruth, the lady who masterminded her kidnap
The Zonal Public Relations Officer, SP Umma T. Ayuba, who represented the Assistant Inspector-General of Police Olatoye Durosinmi-led Zone 2 Police, comprising Lagos and Ogun states, disclosed this in Lagos on Thursday, June 13 while parading 23 suspected crime merchants for various criminal offences at the commands headquarters, Onikan.
How it all happened:
A case of Kidnapping was reported to the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2 Command Headquarters by one Jona Jumai ‘f’ that sometimes in the month of May, 2024 her sister one Ruth Livinus ‘f’ who works as a domestic staff in Ajah Area of Lagos went missing and few days later the family members were contacted via a strange telephone number that Ruth Livinus ‘f’ has been kidnapped and in custody of the kidnappers who demanded Five Million Naira (N5,000,000:00k) Ransom be paid into a designated account. Suspects were trailed and arrested in their hideout in Ikorodu Area of Lagos by Operatives of the Zonal Anti-Piracy Unit led by SP Mariam Ogunmolasuyi.
“Investigation revealed that it was the purported kidnap-victim Ruth Livinus ‘f’, her boyfriend Isaac Gabriel ‘m’ and one Jeremiah Boniface ‘m’ (her cousin) prearranged the kidnap to extort monies from her employer and family members.
“Interestingly, Ruths parents are not wealthy because she live with her mother. It was her aunt who took her to where she is working as a domestic staff. Her aunt told the police on report that she left the house without any information or to her boss.
“So the boss was worried and reached her aunt who brought her to work. Initially, the aunt was alleged of using her for ritual. So the aunt has to come and report to the police that this is what is happening. It was at the point that the acclaimed kidnappers called her mother requesting for N5m ransom.
“The mother was rallying round looking for how to raise that amount. After that, the operatives through technology tracked all the numbers and arrested all of them there. The lady told her boyfriend that her mother has a landed property that she could actually sell to get the money. She knew what she was doing,” the PRO said while reading the report of the parade to newsmen.
Speaking to newsmen why she staged her own kidnap, she said. She wanted to use the money to open her own hair dressing shop. The lady who hails from Kaduna State said it was his boyfriend, Gabriel who gave her the idea of staging her kidnap whom she claimed she knew through her cousin.
When asked how the police arrested her. She said, her step sister tracked the number and found one suspect, “That was how the man directed the police to the place where we were arrested.”
She told newsmen that she regrets her actions. She also denied saying her mom have a land to sell but wanted her money to get the money anyhow. “I regret my actions. My mom did not have a land anywhere. I just did that for her to look for the money and send. My dad is late,” she said.
She pleaded for her mother to withdraw the case because she regrets her actions. She confessed to be the first born amid six children. She said she has only collected N50,000 before the arrest.
Ruth only holds a WAEC certificate which she obtained in Kaduna and has been in Lagos since January.
Isaac Gabriel, is the boyfriend of the lady, Ruth who staged her own kidnap. He said she told him that he wanted to start a business and she does not have the money. “I asked her how and she said maybe she would tell her mother that she was sick but she later said that if she used it that way the money that would come out would not be much. She suggested kidnap. I asked if that one would come out much and she said yes because she had asked her mother for money and she refused that is why she wanted to wicked her mother too so I supported her. I am into network marketing,” he shared.
