A Nigerian woman faked her own kidnapping to extort a $1,200 (752.5 pounds) ransom from her husband, police said on Tuesday, in a region of the west African nation plagued by abductions.
Authorities arrested the woman and her accomplice, a motorcycle taxi man who helped her stage it, after tracing the bank account given for her husband's payment of 200,000 naira ($1,200) to the taxi man himself.
"They have confessed to the crime and we are corroborating our investigation to be able to charge them in court," said Ebere Amarizu, a police spokesman in Enugu state.
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