A couple at Masaka area of Nasarawa State abducted a four-year-old boy, Godwin Shekidat on February 13, 2017 while he was on his way back from school.
The boy’s father, Monday, a police inspector, received a message from someone claiming to know where his son was.
But it turned out that the message was sent by a Cameroonian, 30-year-old Tanla Mirabel, who had lodged in Ikotun area of Lagos and seeking healing for her Asthma at TB Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations.
Mirabel, it was learnt, was working in collusion was her Nigerian boyfriend, Rafael Adedayo.
The police said both Mirabel and Adedayo saw an opportunity to extort money from Monday and grabbed it.
The duo were said to have got hold of Monday’s phone number through an alert circulated on the social media, which included the phone number of the victim’s father.
PUNCH reports that as soon as Monday knew that his son was indeed abducted, he had informed police authorities who tasked the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team with tracking down the suspects.
According to a source in the team, the duo contacted Monday claiming to know those behind the kidnapping of his son. They also demanded he pay them a certain amount of money for that information.
The text messages through which the duo contacted Monday were sent through Mirabel’s number.
Monday was said to have reported the development to the IRT, which tracked down Mirabel.
The IRT also trailed the owner of an account number in which they instructed Monday to deposit the money. The account belonged to one Mary, a resident of Ikotun area of Lagos.
Mirabel, who is two months pregnant for Adedayo, explained that she met her boyfriend when she travelled to Synagogue Church of All Nations for healing but became stranded.
Narrating how she met Adedayo, an indigene of Bamenda in Cameroun, Mirabel said, “ I came to Nigeria three months ago and I stayed in my brother’s house in Kano State. I had only N10,000 on me when I left Kano and came to Lagos. I went to TB Joshua’s church that day because I am an asthmatic patient and I wanted him to pray for me for healing. But when I arrived the church, the ushers did not allow me to see him.
“I became stranded and stood at the bus stop when I had nowhere to go that night. Adedayo approached me there and asked where I was going. I told him I had nowhere to go. He told me he had a lodge where he paid N500 per night and offered to accommodate me.
“I lived with him and he fed me for two weeks. There was a day he left the room with my phone and when he came back, he said he saw a post on my phone about a missing boy and the parents of the missing child published their phone numbers, offering a reward for anyone with information that could lead them to the child.”
Mirabel said Adedayo then directed her to send an sms to the phone number informing the parents that she knew where the missing boy was.
He allegedly told her to request N40,000 for his return.
Mirabel told the police that when she refused, Adedayo threatened to destroy her travelling documents, which he had in his custody.
“I had no choice but to send the SMS to the phone number he provided. I did not even know about any missing child until Adedayo told me about the post,” she said.
According to her, she did not know the person she was sending a message to was a policeman, adding that her boyfriend thought the boy’s parents were wealthy.
“Adedayo said he had spent a lot of money on me and hoped to recoup it from the money he gets from the missing boy’s father. He said my role was to make sure that the man pays the money,” Mirabel said.
But Adedayo, a Kogi State indigene, denied involvement in the scam.
The police said investigation was still ongoing on the case and that the suspects would be charged to court when investigators finish their work.
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