A senior staff of Ahmadu Bello University, Ebong Joy Akpan, and her daughter, Inyene, have been sentenced by a Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Zaria to a six-month and seven years imprisonment respectively for faking a kidnap.

According to Daily Trust, Chief Magistrate Abdullahi G. Maigamo found both Akpan and her daughter, a final year student of the school, guilty of criminal conspiracy, giving false information with intent to mislead public servant and fabrication of false evidence.

Report said the senior varsity staff faked the abduction of her daughter and blamed it on some colleagues whom she alleged had been at loggerheads with her in the ABU chapter of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities.

The primary suspects she fingered were Muhammad Gimba Alfa, Mohammed Inusa, Lawal Yakubu Hunkuyi, Haruna Mohammed, Salisu Isa and Rev. J. F Bukkah.

An intensive investigation carried out by security operatives, however, proved otherwise after police discovered the alarm was a hoax.

Following the discovery, both mother and daughter were charged to court where the chief magistrate them guilty on the three count charges.

Akpan and Inyene were simultaneously sentenced to six-month imprisonment with option of N25,000 fine and seven years imprisonment with option of N75,000 fine in line with section 97(2) and 140 as well as 158(2) of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 1991.