{"id":24223,"date":"2024-03-21T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T12:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=24223"},"modified":"2024-03-21T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T12:12:23","slug":"man-arrested-for-faking-own-kidnapping-in-abuja-to-test-fiancees-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/21\/man-arrested-for-faking-own-kidnapping-in-abuja-to-test-fiancees-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested for Faking Own Kidnapping in Abuja to Test Fianc\u00e9e&#8217;s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Police operatives in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have apprehended a 28-year-old man named Pascal Akuh for allegedly orchestrating his own kidnapping. Akuh&#8217;s arrest was part of a series of suspects paraded by FCT Commissioner of Police Benneth Igweh at the command&#8217;s headquarters on Wednesday, March 20.<\/p>\n<p>According to Commissioner Igweh, Akuh&#8217;s brother reported to the Apo Divisional Headquarters on March 14, 2023, around 5:30 p.m., claiming that Pascal Akuh had informed him of being arrested by the police and taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) custody.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, police officers and the suspect&#8217;s relatives conducted visits to various detention facilities including the SCID, IRT, and FCID, but found no trace of Akuh. However, the suspect&#8217;s car was tracked to a location in Wumba, Apo, using a GPS tracker. Acting on this information, officers from the Apo Division swiftly conducted a search in the area and eventually located and detained Akuh at a hotel in Lokogoma later that night.<\/p>\n<p>During interrogation, Akuh confessed to staging his own kidnapping as a means to test the love of his intended fianc\u00e9e.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu Police operatives in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have apprehended a 28-year-old man named Pascal Akuh for allegedly orchestrating his own kidnapping. Akuh&#8217;s arrest was part of a series of suspects paraded by FCT Commissioner of Police Benneth Igweh at the command&#8217;s headquarters on Wednesday, March 20. According to Commissioner Igweh, Akuh&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":24225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24224,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223\/revisions\/24224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}