Belynda Chinwe Bosa, a student of Delta State University has been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for staging her kidnap with the intention of extorting money from her parents.
It was learnt that Beatrice Bosa of Kwale in Delta State reported that last December her daughter, Chinwe, residing at Lagos, who was travelling from Lagos to Abraka in Delta State was kidnapped along the way by unknown hoodlums.
She later got a call from the abductors demanding a sum of N500,000.
Following the report, operatives of Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Asaba, swung into action and arrested one Sunday Ogagawotu at Oyibo, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, after withdrawing the ransom money which was paid into his Ecobank account in Port-Harcourt.
Commissioner of Police, Delta State, Alkali Baba Usman when contacted over the incident revealed that the victim, on leaving Lagos went to her boyfriend, one George Itietie at Port-Harcourt where herself, the said Itietie and Sunday Ogagawatu planned to inform her parents that she was kidnapped so as to extort money from her parents.
The victim who got N100, 000.00 as her own share from the ransom of N500, 000.00 paid by her parents and her accomplices have confessed to the crime and are helping the Police in their investigation.
