Ameerah Sufyan has pleaded guilty to misleading the police before a Magistrate Court in Abuja on Wednesday. 

This came after James Idachaba, police prosecutor, provided a medical report suggesting that Sufyan was mentally ill when she gave the false information. 

Idachaba prayed to the court that Sufyan be placed under the supervision of the police counselling unit for a regular review of her mental state and handed a non-custodial sentence under Section 44 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act. 

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Chinyere Moneme, Sufyan’s counsel, did not oppose Idachaba’s submissions.

Chukwuemeka Nweke, the presiding magistrate, ordered that Sufyan should be released conditionally to a probation officer. 

The Magistrate Court also ordered Sufyan to undergo psychiatric care for the next 12 months.

On June 14, Sufyan sent out an SOS on Twitter, claiming that she had been abducted at gunpoint alongside 16 others from different locations in Abuja.

“We were abducted by people with police uniforms and a van from our houses from different parts of Abuja,” Sufyan tweeted.

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“We’re about 17 including three pregnant women and two little kids.”

Muyiwa Adejobi, Police Public Relations Officer, told FIJ that the police recorded no kidnaps. Adejobi also said the police doubted Sufyan’s story.

“We have found Ameerah and we have some suspicions about her case and the alert she broadcast. We have some questions to ask her,” Adejobi said on June 17.

Sufyan’s Twitter account posted an apology on June 20.

“Good day all. I would like to formally apologize to the general public, to the whole police department and my friends and family for misleading them with the below tweet. Nothing of such happened and it was all just my delusions and negative thinking,” Sufyan tweeted.