DESPERATION: Woman Fakes Her Own kidnapping, Demands N200,000 Ransom From Husband

A housewife has been arrested by the Enugu State
Police for planning & staging her own kidnap, then
demanding the sum of N200, 000 from her husband
Marcus Chukwu as ransom.
Her partner, a commercial motorcyclist who was also
connected in the staging her kidnap Chikwe Tochukwu
has also been arrested.
It was gathered that the husband Marcus, a native of
Agbogugu in Awgu local Government Area of Enugu
State, had received a call from his wife, Nancy
Chukwu, claiming that she had been kidnapped by
unknown gunmen and that her kidnappers were
demanding the sum of two hundred thousand naira.
Marcus was thereby given an account number where the
said ransom is to be paid, rather than pay the ransom
he reported the matter to the anti-kidnap unit of
the police.
The Enugu State DSP, Ebere Amaraizu, who
confirmed stated that investigations conducted revealed
that Tochukwu of Amakwe Okeremiri Aboh Mbaise in
Imo state, residing at Agbogugu was the brain behind
the stage managed kidnap, which was aimed at
extorting the woman's husband.
Tochukwu who confessed to the police said he is an
okada rider that usually carries the woman, Nancy
home anytime she is returning from market, adding that
Nancy lured her into the crime.
He went on to confess that while he was together with
Nancy, sounded like a kidnapper on phone who was
already holding Nancy under captivity, and demanded
that the sum of two hundred thousand naira be paid as a
ransom to the account number provided, which he also
claimed belonged to his friend Chikwado.
Nancy also confessed to the crime, saying she never
knew what came over her to have acted in such manner.
"A full scale investigations into the alleged incident has
intensified", Amaraizu further stated.