The Ogun State Police Command, on Monday, said a pregnant woman, Rahemat Lateef, who claimed to have been abducted at gunpoint while going to the state hospital at Ijaiye, Abeokuta, for child delivery, was a case of fake kidnap.
The spokesperson for the state Police command, SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this via her X handle @EmbracepeacePRO on Monday.
Odutola said the woman, having discovered that she had suffered another miscarriage, decided to fake her own kidnap to avoid the wrath of her husband who had been expecting her to have a live birth.
Rahemat was said to have escaped to Kwara State and later showed up in Abeokuta, with her father in tow.
The housewife was said to have been frustrated due to repeated miscarriages and had 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 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.”
