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The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested two women for kidnapping and selling a 5-year-old-boy.    The suspects, Blessing Elijah Sylvester,35, from Ikot Enua in Ibesikpo Asutan, and 50 year-old Ofonime Etim Essien from Ikot Abiyan in Nsit Atai, sold the child at N600,000.    The State Police Commissioner, CP Joseph Eribo, disclosed this on Monday, September 30, 2024, …

“Detectives in Imenti North, Meru County, Kenya have apprehended three 17-year-olds who orchestrated a sham kidnapping in Kainginyo, Thimbiri location, before audaciously demanding Sh6 million ransom from the “victims” family,” the statement read.    “In a classic case of misguided get-rich-quick mentality, the three, two males and a female, faked the kidnapping of the female, then called her parents with …