How undergraduate abducted by mutual friend was killed after ransom payment

Fresh facts have emerged on how an undergrade student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Christiana Idowu, was murdered after ransom was collected.

The deceased, who was kidnapped between Ikorodu and Yaba in Lagos State, was killed by her abductor identified as a known person to her.

The the abductors allegedly demanded the sum of N3m from her parents as ransom but they bargained it to N350,000.

Sources said after the ransom was paid, the account it was paid into was traced to someone the deceased knew in her lifetime.

The Student Union Government president of FUNAAB, Ibrahim Adeyemi, confirmed the student’s death to our correspondent in a telephone conversation on Thursday.

“The Union can confirm that she was reportedly killed by her abductor. We will be addressing the matter soon” he said.

A Police source told our correspondent that Christiana had left her home in the Itaoluwo area of Ikorodu heading for the University of Lagos where she was observing her industrial training before she was abducted.

The police officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity said after she was unreachable for a while, the abductors reached out to the family through her telephone.

In a viral post on X, a user, @letter_to_jack, disclosed that intelligence operatives were able to uncover the location of the abductor through the BVN and account details used in collecting ransom from the family.

“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 resides.

“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.”

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, did not respond to messages or answer calls seeking clarification.