A woman, Raheemat Lateef, who was thought to have been kidnapped while on her way to the hospital to give birth, has been found in Ilorin, Kwara state, after it was discovered that she had staged her own abduction.
She had been reported missing in Abeokuta, Ogun State, last week, and her husband had filed a report with the police. However, it was revealed that Raheemat had actually fled to Kwara State to escape her husband’s anger after suffering a miscarriage, which was not her first. Feeling frustrated and desperate, she fabricated the kidnapping story.
The police were able to track her down and found her with her father on Monday, June 24, bringing an end to the investigation.
Odutola 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 not kidnapped. She had a miscarriage, frustrated due to repeated reoccurrences, feared her husband’s reaction, she orchestrated the script. The anti kidnapping team had started tracking her, till she showed up.
“She is under medical observation, and safe.”
