False Kidnap Alarm: Court Grants 17-Year-Old Twitter User Bail Over Mental Illness

Ameerah Sufyan, a 17-year-old Twitter user who was arrested and arraigned for raising a false kidnap alarm, was granted bail by an Abuja Magistrate Court on Wednesday, June 29.

Ameerah was apprehended on June 17, three days after tweeting that she and 16 other Abuja residents had been kidnapped at gunpoint by men dressed in police uniforms and taken to a forest.

Three pregnant women and two children, she claimed, were among the victims.

However, the court granted her bail on Wednesday due to mental health concerns.

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