The police in Ogun State Police have announced that the pregnant woman, Rahemat Lateef Ogunbunmi, purportedly abducted by some unknown gunmen while going to the state hospital at Ijaiye, Abeokuta for child delivery, was not abducted after all.
The spokesperson for the state police command, SP Omolola Odutola, said it was a case of a fake kidnap.
Odutola said the woman suffered a miscarriage and was afraid of her husband’s reaction prompting her to fake her kidnap.
Mrs Lateef was said to have escaped to Kwara State and showed up back in Abeokuta with her father.
Raheemat 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.
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.
Police then commenced investigations.
