Nigeria, June 9 -- Oluchi Ugbowan, whom the Edo State Police Command arrested for faking her own kidnapping, has broken her silence.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that police arrested the 45-year-old days after her family announced that kidnappers abducted her and demanded a ransom of N50 million.

Officers arrested Mrs Ugbowan alongside three others at a hotel in the Ikpoba Hills area of the state.

The command's spokesperson, Eno Ikoedem, posted a video of Mrs Ugbowan and the others being paraded on her Facebook page on Tuesday.

Speaking in the video, Mrs Ugbowan maintained that nobody kidnapped her and that she went into hiding of her own accord.

She attributed her actions to the debts she owed several individuals in her area.

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