Christiana Idowu, a student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, was abducted between Ikorodu and Yaba in Lagos State. It is reported that her kidnapper killed her.
In a phone call with our correspondent on Thursday, FUNAAB’s Student Union Government president, Ibrahim Adeyemi, affirmed this.
“The Union can confirm that she was reportedly killed by her abductor,” Adeyemi stated. We’ll be taking care of this shortly.
On August 26, a family source informed PUNCH Metro that the kidnappers were requesting N3 million in ransom before they would release the student.
Before being taken by the kidnappers, Christiana had left her house in the Itaoluwo neighborhood of Ikorodu and was traveling to the University of Lagos in the Yaba neighborhood of the state, where she was observing her industrial training.
The source also revealed that the kidnappers contacted the family via her phone after she went missing for some time, requesting N3 million in ransom to be paid before she could be freed.
The source further stated that following multiple requests from the family, the kidnappers consented to accept payment of N350,000 to a certain account, which the family made; however, the kidnappers still wouldn’t release the woman.
In the meantime, @letter_to_jack revealed in a now viral post on X that intelligence agents used the BVN and account information used to obtain ransom from the family to locate the kidnapper.
The tweet said, “Intelligence agents started looking into the account number’s data on the 26th.
“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 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.”
As of the time this report was filled out, calls and messages to the family source went unanswered, indicating that attempts to gain a response from the victim’s family were unsuccessful.
Additionally, even after reading the messages, Benjamin Hundeyin, the public relations officer for the Lagos State Police, did not reply to messages left on his WhatsApp line, and he has not returned calls from our correspondent.
