The woman who was thought to have been kidnapped on her way to the hospital to give birth has been found in Ilorin, Kwara State, after faking her own abduction out of fear.
Raheemat Lateef was reported kidnapped last week in Abeokuta, Ogun State. She was supposedly on her way to the State General Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta, for delivery when she was allegedly abducted.
Her husband, Ogunbunmi Lateef, reported the supposed kidnapping to the police in Abeokuta.
However, on Monday, June 24, police revealed that Raheemat had fled to Kwara State to escape her husband’s anger after having a miscarriage.
It was said that she was frustrated by repeated miscarriages and had fabricated the kidnapping story.
Police spokesman Omolola Odutola, while giving an update on the incident on Monday, said Raheemat was found in Kwara State with her father. She added that the command’s Anti-kidnapping unit had begun tracking her until she resurfaced.
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.”
