Admin I Thursday, March 21, 2024
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Nigeria Police has arrested a young pregnant wife of Chidozie Ubah who orchestrated her kidnap to claim the sum of N2 million ransom from her husband.
Narrating the incident, Force PRO, FCT, Josephine Adeh said the pregnant lady in question collected the ransom from her husband, which she later shared with her boyfriend.
“On the 11/03/2024 at about 19:40hrs, one Chiedozie Ubah ‘m’ of Saburi II Dei-dei, Abuja, reported at Gwa Gwa division that his pregnant wife Rosemary Ubah left home to the hospital on same date for a scan but did not return home”.
He said, Uba later received a call through his wife’s phone number telling him that his wife had been kidnapped and demanded for N2 million ransom before her release.
“He transferred the sum of N2 million into his wife’s account as instructed by the kidnapper. He later brought his wife to the station after her release.
“During interrogation, the wife freely confessed to have conspired with one man named Walter Ezeala ‘m’ living in the same street with them at Saburi to extort money from her husband”, the police said.
Walter was arrested and he confessed that his own share was eight hundred thousand N800,000 while the lady took N1,200,000. The sum of N793,500 cash, two FCMB ATM cards and two android phone was recovered from them, the police said, adding that the suspects will be charged to court soon.