US EditionPolice Arrest TikToker for Faking Kidnapping to Gain Followers
Osarobo Omoyemen admitted staging a fake kidnapping to gain TikTok followers; police charged her on Nov 20, 2024, and are seeking to arrest accomplices.
- Edo State Police Command arrested and charged Osarobo Omoyemen, Benin-based TikTok creator known as Madam Oil Rice, to court on Thursday, November 20, 2025.
- A posted clip asserted she was kidnapped along Upper Sakponba Road in Benin City and detained at Akpata Police Station where police allegedly collected N10,000 as bail.
- Investigators found Osarobo Omoyemen deleted a clip where an unidentified accomplice urged TikTok followers, and during questioning she confessed staging the incident to gain followers.
- The Command condemned the false claim as misleading and capable of inciting hostility, while authorities said the arrest aims to deter misuse of social media and seek unidentified accomplices.
- After the video circulated, police launched an investigation immediately and Moses Yamu, Command's Public Relations Officer, said the probe found the story completely fabricated and deliberate.
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Newsacross.comTikToker Arraigned For Faking Own Kidnap To Attract Followers
The Edo State Police Command has arraigned a content creator, Osarobo Omoyemen, for allegedly faking her own kidnapping to attract online traffic and followers to her TikTok page. The suspect, aged 24 and popularly known as “Madam Oil Rice”, recently circulated a false statement on social media claiming that she was kidnapped along Upper Sakponba Road in Benin City and later rescued by the police operatives who purportedly detained her at Akpata…
Edo TikToker in police net for allegedly staging fake kidnap to boost followers
Edo State Police Command has arrested 24-year-old social media personality Omoyemen Osarobo — widely known as “Madam Oil Rice” — after she allegedly staged a fake kidnap drama in Benin City to grow her online following. Police spokesman CSP Moses Yamu, in a statement released in Benin and shared with The post Edo TikToker in police net for allegedly staging fake kidnap to boost followers appeared first on National Accord Newspaper.
Police Arraign TikToker Over False Kidnap Claim In Edo
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a social media content creator, Osarobo Omoyemen, over false kidnap claims made on TikTok. In a statement signed by the command’s PPRO, Moses Yamu, Omoyemen, popularly known as Madam Oil Rice on social media, claimed that she was kidnapped at Upper Sakponba Road in Benin and […] The post Police Arraign TikToker Over False Kidnap Claim In Edo appeared first on Trending News.
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