Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a 19-year-old National Diploma holder of the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, for plotting to blackmail popular artiste, Salawa Abeni.

The suspect, Olufowoke Emmanuel, said to be a resident of Ogun State, was picked up by the decoy team of the RRS last Thursday.

The police were said to have been trailing Emmanuel for three days.

The artiste recently went on social media to raise the alarm over plans to blackmail her with her nude photos.


She posted her WhatsApp conversation with the suspect and the purported old photos he planned to use for the blackmail.

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The Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, was said to have in April 2020, directed the Commander, RRS, DCP Olatunji Disu, to fish out the blackmailer.

After the technical diagnosis of the complaint, the decoy team was said to have narrowed down on him.


The police said Emmanuel could not be picked immediately because of the prevalence of the COVID-19, adding that he was later arrested.

The suspect, in his statement to the police, allegedly confessed to the crime, saying he wanted to extort money from the artiste.

The Electrical Engineering graduate, reportedly said he saw the nude pictures in a memory card he picked up on the floor in YABATECH in November 2019.

He added that after downloading the photographs on his phone, he got Abeni’s mobile number from her Instagram page.

“On 1st of April, 2020, I chatted her up and also called her after sending a few of the photos to her online.

“My intention was to negotiate with her for a few bucks and for me to destroy the photographs.

“I thought everything was going on fine until the following day when I heard the news of the blackmail over the radio.


“I was with my mother. She even cursed the blackmailer unknown to her that I was the one behind it.

“I immediately sneaked out, destroyed the memory card, and threw my mobile phone and SIM card into a nearby wetland in Magboro.

“Since then, I never mentioned it to anyone and called Madam Salawa Abeni about it again,” he said.

The Lagos CP, Odumosu, said no individual would be allowed to commit a crime in Lagos from any state or escape to other states in Nigeria to evade arrest.


He advised parents to monitor their children, emphasising that the Internet was a fertile ground for opportunities but the command would not allow criminals to use it to exploit law-abiding residents.

Says a lot about the mindset of the average Nigerian youth....
All this "get rich quick syndrome" has eaten really deep...

hmmmm..

Mumu man...you threw away the sim card of a line that you registered.

It wont stop another youth from trying the same lubish

He's even lucky he got arrested as others get secret get killed or missing

Horrible blackmailer

meanwhile,
your govt locks down the country for 2months,
and conducted mass testing for Corona virus,
after 3months plus,
your NcdC have tested 9thousand plus cases, from a total population of over 180million






15yrs later
NcDc; we have tested 11 million Nigerians,
stay indoors,
Corona virus is real,

otipoju:
Mumu man...you threw away the sim card of a line that you registered.

Don't mind him.

19 year old already having a criminal record, already having the mind to extort for money, already planning to ride Benz!

These young chaps think life is a bed of roses and you just have to get to the roses quick and lay on it.

He could have been assassinated by the clique of the person he wanted to blackmail.

This one na Oliverjaid younger brother

Good. One less scammer off the street.

Look at yourself, see yourself.

He should be taken to Yaba left

He wasn’t even born when this woman took the pictures

How the memory card take waka reach yabatech?

yabatech students and scam are like bread and butter

Ogun state indigene again? From skull mining to blackmailing.. After them go say Rivers state bad.

That's why I like northerners.
An AVERAGE Northerners would rather beg if he doesn't have, but an AVERAGE Southerner would rather try to blackmail, steal, Rob, prostitution and use some of his relatives or friends for money ritual.
That's why jungle justice is so rampant here, occur atleast once daily in my area.

And rapist and baby mamas are also common with us, instead of sleeping or raping multiple girls, they will get themselves a wife and do it legally and no one complains. And married men instead of divorcing or living their wives at home to go and sleep with side chicks and prostitutes and get infected with STDs, they would rather marry a second wife.

Stupid boy