The FCT Police Command swung into action with a view to rescuing Ameerah only to discover that it was a case of fake kidnap
On Tuesday, June 14, an Abuja-based lady, Ameerah Sufyan, raised a false alarm on Twitter that she and 16 others were abducted by men dressed in police uniforms. She claimed to have managed to communicate with her phone without her abductors knowing.
The fake alert raised by Ameerah triggered hysteria on Twitter with users of the microblogging App pressuring the police to rescue her.
She had said: “Please whoever has my WhatsApp number, I sent a broadcast message of my location,” she wrote via her Twitter handle, @ameerah_sufyan.”
She added that she was kidnapped alongside pregnant women and children from various locations in Abuja.
TheNiche had reported that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command assured the public it was doing everything to ‘rescue’ Ameerah with the last coordinates she provided of her fake kidnapping.
Three days after combing the location where the Federal Capital Territory Police Command suspected that Ameerah was being held, they found that it was a false alarm.
The statement released on Friday read, “The Federal Capital Territory Police Command wishes to categorically debunk the viral news of the alleged kidnapping of one Safiyanu Amira and seventeen (17) others who were reportedly abducted at gunpoint by Armed men in Police uniform on Tuesday 14th June 2022 at about 1:00 pm and to state that Safiyanu Amira is currently safe in Police custody.
“While she is currently in the hospital receiving medical attention as demanded by global best practices, the investigation continues and findings will be communicated subsequently.”
Ameerah has now apologized for faking her kidnapping, blaming her actions on “delusions and negative thinking.”
She also expressed gratitude to the members of the Nigerian Police Force for their help and asked people to pray for her.
She tweeted, “Good day all, I would like to formally apologise to the general public, to the whole police department and my friends and family for misleading them with the below tweet. Nothing of such happened and it was all just my delusions and negative thinking.
“I intentionally took myself out of our house, went to these locations, entered bushes and dehydrated and starved myself for four days just like that. There was no kidnapping, nothing at all. I truly apologise and please pray for me. I need it.
“I would like to thank the IG and the CP Babaji Sunday for helping me through this. May God reward them abundantly.”