A staff of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Joy Enobong-Akpan, and her daughter, Akon Iyene, have been arraigned before a Chief Magistrates’ Court, Chediya GRA, Sabongari, Zaria, for criminal conspiracy and offering false information.
The two reportedly connived and falsely accused six staff of the university of kidnapping the second accused, Iyene, a student of Human Anatomy Department of the institution, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Those accused of kidnapping the girl were -Muhammad Gimba-Alfa, Rev. J. F. Buka, Lawal Yakubu, Mohammed Yunusa and Haruna Muhammad.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Aliyu Jibril told the court that the university’s chief security officer had forwarded a letter of complaint titled: `Missing Student’ to the Zaria Police Area Command on March 4.
Jibril told the court that the letter also indicated that the missing student had received a kidnap threat via a text message to GSM number: 08125359077, in which her mother was told to stop participating in Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) politics.
The prosecutor said when the girl was subsequently declared missing, the police invited the mother several times on the matter but refused to honour the invitation.