By The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Thursday, arrested a 19-year-old National Diploma holder of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos for allegedly blackmailing Queen Salawa Abeni with nude photographs.
The suspect, Olufowoke Oladunjoye Emmanuel, a resident of Brentfield Avenue, Peace Estate, Magboro, Ogun State, was picked up by the Decoy Team of Rapid Response Squad last week Thursday after three days of close monitoring.
The suspect, while confessing to the crime admitted to have been the mastermind behind the ploy to publish nude pictures of Waka Queen in exchange for money, adding that he was alone in the scheme.
The suspect, a 2017/2018 Electrical Engineering student of Yabatech, disclosed that he saw the nude pictures in a memory card which he picked up on the floor in Yabatech sometime in November 2019.
Adding that after downloading the nude photographs of Salawa Abeni on his phone, he picked up her mobile number from her Instagram page.
“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 delete 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 while she was 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 explained.
