Police arrest married woman who faked her kidnap and shared the ransom money with her boyfriend

Men of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have arrested a pregnant married woman who faked her kidnap, demanding N2 million as ransom from her husband.

Disclosing this to newsmen, the FCT Commissioner of Police, Bennett Igweh, on March 11, one Chiedozie Ubah of Saburi II dei-dei in Abuja had visited the police to report that his pregnant wife left home to the hospital for a scan but did not return home.

‘’He later received a call through his wife’s phone number telling him that his wife had been kidnapped and demanded for two (2) million naira ransom before her release. He transferred the sum of two (2) million naira 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 said Walter was arrested and he confessed that his own share was eight hundred thousand (N800,000) naira and the lady took one million two hundred thousand naira (N1,200,000). The sum of Seven hundred and ninety three thousand five hundred naira (N793,500) cash, two (2) FCMB ATM cards and two android phone was recovered from them.”