Student Arranges Own Kidnap With Boyfriend to Extort 500,000 From Parents

Delta State Police Command has arrested one Belynda Chinwe Bosa, a student of Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, for staging her kidnap in order to extort money from her parents, Daily Independent reports.

It was said that one Beatrice Bosa of Kwale, Delta State reported that last December her daughter, Chinwe, residing in Lagos, who was travelling from Lagos to Abraka in Delta State was kidnapped along the way by unknown hoodlums.

She claimed her abductors were demanding a ransom of N500, 000.00 but was surprised that her boyfriend and his brother demanded N10 million from her parents.

The boyfriend, who was also arrested, confessed to the crime, lamenting that he came from overseas and that both of them wanted to use the money to settle down; rent a flat, equip it and use part of the money to start a business in Nigeria.

Sequel to the report, operatives of Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Asaba, swung into action and arrested one America Sunday Ogagawotu at Oyiobo, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, after withdrawing the ransom money which was paid into his Ecobank account in Port-Harcourt.

Commissioner of Police, Delta State, Alkali Baba Usman, when contacted over the incident revealed that the victim, on leaving Lagos went to her boyfriend, one George Itietie at Port-Harcourt where herself, the said Itietie and America Sunday Ogagawatu planned to inform her parents that she was kidnapped so as to extort money from her parents.

He further disclosed that the victim got N100, 000.00 as her own share from the ransom of N500, 000.00 paid by her parents.

Ogagawatu, Itietie and Chinwe have confessed to the crime.