YabaTech student arrested for blackmailing Salawa Abeni with nudes

A 19-year-old National Diploma holder of the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, has been arrested by Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command, have arrested for attempting to blackmail popular artiste, Salawa Abeni with her nudes.

The suspect, Olufowoke Emmanuel, a resident of Brentfield Avenue, Peace Estate, Magboro, Ogun State, was picked up by the decoy team of the RRS last Thursday.

The police were said to have been on Emmanuel’s trail for three days.

The artiste recently went on the social media to raise the alarm over the attempt  to blackmail her with her nude photos.

She posted her WhatsApp conversation with the suspect and the purported old photos he planned to use for the blackmail.

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, was said to have in April directed the Commander of the RRS, DCP Olatunji Disu, to fish out the blackmailer.

After technical analysis of the complaint, the decoy team was said to have narrowed down on Emmanuel.

The police said Emmanuel could not be picked immediately because of the prevalence of the COVID-19, adding that he was later arrested.

The suspect, in his statement to the police, allegedly confessed to the crime, saying he wanted to extort money from the Waka music artiste.

The electrical engineering OND holder reportedly said he saw the nude pictures on a memory card he picked up on the floor at Yabatech in November 2019.

He added that after downloading the photographs on his phone, he got Abeni’s mobile number from her Instagram page.

He reportedly stated, “On April 1, 2020, I chatted her up and also called her after sending a few of the photos to her online.