Obinna Nwatu, a Senior Secondary School 3 (SS3) student in Abia State, has been arrested for faking his kidnapping in order to extort money from his mother, Mrs. Rose Nwatu.
CP The incident was reported to the police by Obinna’s younger brother, Wisdom Nwatu, said Janet Agbede, the Abia Commissioner of Police, on Friday, October 8.
When Wisdom went to get a recharge card, he was kidnapped near Stadium Road in Okpuala Ngwa by unknown hoodlums driving an ash-colored Sienna with an unknown registration number.
Following an investigation, the Command’s anti-kidnapping squad apprehended one Chinaza Favour Ukaigwe, whose bank account was used to obtain a ransom of two hundred thousand naira (N200,000).
Obinna was arrested as a result of this, and he admitted to faking his kidnapping, claiming that he did it because his mother is stingy.
Agbede said;
“Chinaza Favour Ukaigwe told the police after arrest that Obinna Nwatu faked his own kidnap.
“He stated that Obinna and one Favour Ugorji a.k.a. “Wizzy” approached him at his shop at Aba Road Abia State and requested that he should give his bank account to enable them use and receive the school fees of their young sister. The investigation further revealed that Obinna Nwatu and Ugorji received through the account the sum of two hundred thousand naira (N200,000) paid in as a ransom by Mrs. Rose Nwatu (mother of Obinna Nwatu).
“Obinna Nwatu confessed he was not actually kidnapped. He conspired with Favour Ugorji known as “Wizzy (now at large) to intentionally go into hiding at a hotel along with Rhema University Road Aba.
“Obinna who is a Senior Secondary School 3 (SS3) student and lives in a boarding school decided to fake his own kidnap claiming that his mother Mrs. Rose Nwatu is stingy.”
