The Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 19-year-old National Diploma holder of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, over the blackmail of Queen Salawa Abeni with nude photographs.
Olufowoke Oladunjoye Emmanuel, a resident of Brentfield Avenue, Peace Estate, Magboro, Ogun State, was said to have been apprehended by the Decoy Team of the Squad last Thursday after tracking him for three days.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, had directed the Commander of RRS, DCP Olatunji Disu, to arrest the suspect after the incident was reported sometime in April 2020.
It was gathered that after technical diagnosis of the complaint, the Decoy Team narrowed down on the suspect few days later.
The suspect reportedly confessed to have been the mastermind behind the ploy to publish some nude pictures of the popular Waka Queen in exchange for money.
The 2017/2018 Electrical Engineering student also said he acted alone after he saw the nude pictures in a memory card he picked up on the floor in his school’s premises sometime in November 2019.
“On 1st of April, 2020, I chatted her up and also called her after sending few of the photos to her online.
”My intention was to negotiate with her for 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 was even cursing the blackmailer unknown to her that I was the brain behind it.
”I immediately sneaked out, destroyed the memory card and threw my mobile phone and SIM card into nearby wetland in Magboro. Since then, I never mentioned it to anyone and called Madam Salawa Abeni about it again,” he confessed.