Fresh facts are emerging on how an undergrade student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, (FUNAAB), Ogun State, Christiana Idowu, was murdered after her abductors collected ransom.
Reports said the deceased, kidnapped between Ikorodu and Yaba in Lagos State, was killed by her abductor identified as someone known to her.
The abductors allegedly demanded the sum of N3 million from her parents as ransom but the amount was bargained on and brought down to N350,000.
Sources said after the ransom was eventually paid, the account it was paid into was traced to someone the deceased knew in her lifetime.
The President, Student Union Government (SUG) of FUNAAB, Comrade Ibrahim Adeyemi, who confirmed the student’s death in a telephone chat on Thursday, said; “The Union can confirm that she was reportedly killed by her abductor. We will be addressing the matter soon”.
A Police source hinted that Christiana had left her home in the Itaoluwo area of Ikorodu heading for the University of Lagos where she was observing her industrial training before she was abducted.
The officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said after Christiana remained unreachable for sometime, the abductors reached out to the family through her telephone.
In a viral post on X, a user, @letter_to_jack, said that intelligence operatives were able to uncover the location of the abductor through the BVN and account details used in collecting ransom from the family.
“Investigation by intelligence operatives began on the 26th to unravel details of the account number. By the 29th, intelligence operatives had confirmation from the bank that the BVN linked to the masked Betting account allegedly belonged to the account owner (name withheld for now) who also operates the Wema Bank (account no withheld for now).”
“Further investigation revealed that he was able to withdraw the sum of N100,000 from the betting account before agents got the betting company to lock the account.”
He added that the operatives however traced the suspected abductor to a location in Ikorodu, Lagos State where the family of Christiana also resides.
According to the Police insider; “Armed by this information, operatives began an investigation into the suspect whom they observed to have a mutual relationship with Christiana Idowu, especially judging by Instagram posts as they both commented on each other’s pages.
“With all this information at hand, the operatives began to track down his cell phone activities and text messages. The cell phone tracking led them to his parent’s house, somewhere in Ikorodu.”
However, the Lagos State Police Command is yet to issue any official statement on the unfortunate development with the Police Spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, having not responded to messages or calls seeking comments on the incident – With Daily Trust report
