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.
The Student Union Government president of FUNAAB, Ibrahim Adeyemi, confirmed this incident.
Adeyemi said, “The Union can confirm that she was reportedly killed by her abductor. We will be addressing the matter soon.”
On August 26, a family source stated that the kidnappers were requesting N3 million in ransom before they would release the student.
The source informed that Christiana had left her home in the Itaoluwo neighbourhood of Ikorodu and was on her way to the University of Lagos in the Yaba area of the state, where she was participating in an industrial training program, before she was abducted by the kidnappers.
The source went on to say that after she was gone for some time, the kidnappers called her family through her telephone and demanded 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 be paid to a certain account, which the family paid. However, the kidnappers still did not release her.
In the meantime, a user on X named @letter_to_jack revealed in a now-viral post that intelligence agents used the BVN and account information used to obtain ransom from the family to locate the kidnapper.
The tweet read, “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 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 Christiana 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.”
