While serving in Akure, Ondo State, she was arrested on October 16, 2025 by officers from the Force Intelligence Department (FID), Abuja), taken to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), and her phones and WiFi router were seized.
The police accused her of being linked to a January 2024 kidnapping and murder case. They claimed that a phone number tied to her NIN appeared in their investigation.
Airtel’s official records later proved she only purchased and activated the SIM on 15 April 2025, more than a year after the crime, but despite this, she was detained overnight, threatened with being flown to Abuja, and subjected to a medical examination without consent.
The police accused her of being linked to a January 2024 kidnapping and murder case. They claimed that a phone number tied to her NIN appeared in their investigation.
Airtel’s official records later proved she only purchased and activated the SIM on 15 April 2025, more than a year after the crime, but despite this, she was detained overnight, threatened with being flown to Abuja, and subjected to a medical examination without consent.
After being granted bail, she was ordered to report to Abuja, where the harassment continued and her devices were still withheld but Thanks to her lawyer, Barrister Tope Temokun, and the quick help of activist Omoyele Sowore, she got her phones back and was freed.
In a BBC Pidgin interview, Titilayo said: “I bought a sim card that was used to collect N50 million ransom, they killed the person but I was the person that went to jail.”
This is serious!
ReplyDeletePeople should try and verify these things before Sim purchase.
Mama this your comment no make sense. How do you expect someone to go about making verification before they can purchase sim card. Are you trying to say you verify before buying anything in Nigeria? You didn't even say network providers should stop recycling sim cards o. Hmmm
DeleteHow will they verify please?
DeleteThis is the duty of the service providers and the security operatives.
no one can verify any sim card before they can purchase it.
Delete@ Anonymous 09: 40...
DeleteI know what I mean, not long ago, I went to buy a new sim card from an MTN agent / friend and this discussion came up. There's a way things like this can be verified, even numbers linked to your NIN as well. Someone has even mentioned it on this blog sometime ago.
So they can trace her, but can't do the same to the kidnappers. Jokers.
ReplyDeleteDon’t mind them❗️bunch of incompetent people
DeleteThat's the country we live in
DeleteThey are not incompetent, they only do selective justice if it involves a rich fellow
DeleteThis is Nigeria.
DeleteThat's to tell you they know what to do but are not just doing it.
DeleteYou can imagine, after months o
DeleteWas it not tracing the criminals they were doing when they mistakenly arrested this corper?
DeleteMy tot
DeleteREAL JOKERS
DeleteOnly if we know how much work these people do.
DeleteWhat if the matter was not reported until after ransom was paid but the victim was not released and the SIM had been thrown away?
In similar circumstances, the culprits of crimes have been caught after they thought they were safe.
Poor you 😔
ReplyDeleteMay God not let us get into trouble, especially for what we know nothing about.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm, nawaoo
ReplyDeleteGod abegoo 🤔
Thank God finally you are free now
Chai! So buying of sim card now is a problem?
ReplyDeleteIt has always been, we’v just been careless over time. Some people change phone numbers almost every month. They should continue.
DeleteAnon 09:28, thank you for your first line.
DeleteService providers should look in the direction of generating new numbers (if possible), rather than recycling and putting new owners at risk.
@ Anonymous 09: 28...
DeleteThank you so much, you are very correct. After my mom's death, I do call her line from time to time out of pain...
Few months later, it became active again and a Yoruba man is the new owner.
This is so annoying!!🤦♀️
ReplyDeleteWhat a country! So, if she couldn't have afforded a lawyer, she would have been thrown in jail for something she knows nothing about.
This country sef. Except she bought an already registered sim. if not she shouldn't be held responsible for anything, if the sim was a new sim. it was still the govt(NCC) that requested that sims should be recycled.
ReplyDeleteThey should stop recycling sims. I bought a sim from a reputable outlet. An MTN sim. Ever since strange numbers and people I do not know have been calling. NCC should stop this practice of recycling sims because they will end up confusing criminal investigations and causing confusion.
DeleteThey recycle numbers everywhere in the world.. it’s not peculiar to Nigeria
DeleteMost important That She Was Free
ReplyDeleteAnd Nigeria Did Not Happen To Her..
Please Abeg Next Time Buy Sim Inside MTN Or Airtel Office
I Went To Mushin Last Week On Way Coming Back To Take Oshodi Bus Saw A Man Selling Sim Inside The Filling Station..
Does Kind Of People Can't Be Trusted Abeg
Hello iya Boys
It doesn't matter where you bought the sim once it has been recycled. The best is to stop recycling sims.
DeleteI bought a new sim in transit. I noticed that it took the Airtel agent like forever to register and link me up after collecting my NIN number. I later realized that other numbers have been linked to my NIN without my knowledge
DeleteJesuuuu
ReplyDeleteWhich kind wahala be this
ReplyDeleteThank God for her
A messed up country
ReplyDeleteThat's how they've been calling this my new line, mentioning one name I don't know. To think I bought it for browsing alone and I don't give it out to people nor call people with it.
To buy new line these days of increased kidnapping and killing is very risky.
lawless country, why can't they do proper investigation before the arrest?
ReplyDeleteSo even after investigation, they they kept her under their custody
ReplyDeleteHow did the sim worked in the first case without being linked to any nin number before she bought the sim? The service provider has to answer this please.
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