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The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 27-year-old woman, Merit Alice, for staging her own kidnapping in a desperate attempt to repay ₦3.6 million entrusted to her by her brother for the purchase of a tricycle.
Alice confessed that instead of using the money as instructed, she spent it on her bridal shower and hotel expenses for friends during her wedding in March. When her brother began to demand a refund, she conspired with two accomplices to fake her abduction and extort a ransom from her family.
According to the command’s spokesperson, SP Bright Edafe, “On July 20, Alice told her husband that she was coming, only to hear that he has been kidnapped. A ransom of ₦3 million was paid after several calls. The husband followed up on the case at the Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cybercrime Squad, and we continued to work until we arrested one of the suspects who eventually let the cat out of the bag.”
Alice explained that she plotted the fake abduction with two accomplices, one of whom, Peter, worked as a security guard at a former place of employment.
“My husband and my brothers raised the ₦3 million ransom that we demanded. After which I went to a POS woman’s shop to cash out the money. I took ₦2.5 million and gave my accomplices ₦500,000,” she said. She expressed regret for her actions and said the pressure to repay her brother pushed her into the act.
SP Edafe commended the operatives for exposing the scheme through careful and thorough investigation.
Watch her confession below…
The suspect named Alice got married march 2025, her brother gave her #3,600,000 to help him purchase a tricycle, but she used the money for her bridal shower and hotel expenses for her friends during her wedding. Fast forward july 2025, she needed to pay back the money, guess… pic.twitter.com/1ma4VFeCHi
— SP. Bright Edafe (@Brightgoldenboy) July 28, 2025
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