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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
A student of Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State, Christiana Idowu, who was kidnapped between Ikorodu and Yaba area of Lagos State has reportedly been murdered by her abductor.
The Student Union Government president of FUNAAB, Ibrahim Adeyemi, disclosed this to newsmen, on Thursday.
“The Union can confirm that she was reportedly killed by her abductor. We will be addressing the matter soon,” Adeyemi said.
The abductors were said to have demanded the sum of N3 million as ransom before they could release the student.
Idowu had left her home in Itaoluwo area of Ikorodu heading to the University of Lagos in the Yaba area of the state where she was doing her industrial training before she was abducted by the kidnappers.
After she was unreachable for a while, the abductors reportedly reached out to the family through her telephone, demanding N3 million to be paid before she could be released.
Following several appeals by the family, the abductors agreed that a sum of N350,000 be paid to a certain account, which the family paid, but the abductors refused to release her despite the payment.
Meanwhile, in a viral post on X, a user, @letter_to_jack, disclosed 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 wrote.
He added that the operatives traced the suspected abductor to a location in Ikorodu, Lagos State where the family of Christiana also reside.
“Armed by this information, operatives began an investigation into the suspect whom they observed to have a mutual relationship with Christiannah 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,” the X user said.
