The Ogun State Police Command said that the alleged abduction of a pregnant woman, Rahemat Lateef, by unknown gunmen while she was en route to the state hospital in Ijaiye, Abeokuta for childbirth, was actually a staged kidnapping.
State police spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola, revealed this information on her X handle. Odutola explained that after discovering she had suffered another miscarriage, Lateef faked her own kidnapping to avoid facing her husband’s disappointment, who had been expecting the delivery of their child.
Mrs Lateef was said to have escaped to Kwara State and showed up back in Abeokuta with her father.
According to PUNCH Metro , 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.
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.”
