Wife Fakes Own kidnapping, Demands N200,000 Ransom

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.