A
housewife has been arrested by the Enugu State Police for planning
& staging her own kidnap, then demanding the sum of N200, 000 from
her husband Marcus Chukwu as ransom.
Her partner, a commercial motorcyclist who was also connected in the staging her kidnap Chikwe Tochukwu has also been arrested.
It
was gathered that the husband Marcus, a native of Agbogugu in Awgu
local Government Area of Enugu State, had received a call from his wife,
Nancy Chukwu, claiming that she had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen
and that her kidnappers were demanding the sum of two hundred thousand
naira.
Marcus was thereby given an account number where the said ransom is to be paid, rather than pay the ransom he reported the matter to the anti-kidnap unit of the police.
The
Enugu State DSP, Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed stated that
investigations conducted revealed that Tochukwu of Amakwe Okeremiri Aboh
Mbaise in Imo state, residing at Agbogugu was the brain behind the
stage managed kidnap, which was aimed at extorting the woman’s husband.
Tochukwu
who confessed to the police said he is an okada rider that usually
carries the woman, Nancy home anytime she is returning from market,
adding that Nancy lured her into the crime.
He
went on to confess that while he was together with Nancy, sounded like a
kidnapper on phone who was already holding Nancy under captivity, and
demanded that the sum of two hundred thousand naira be paid as a ransom
to the account number provided, which he also claimed belonged to his
friend Chikwado.
Nancy also confessed to the crime, saying she never knew what came over her to have acted in such manner.
“A full scale investigations into the alleged incident has intensified”, Amaraizu further stated.
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