Woman Fakes Her Kidnap, Demands Ransom From Husband

A housewife has been arrested by the men of the Nigeria police Enugu State , for planning and staging her own kidnap and demanding the sum of N200, 000 from her husband Marcus Chukwu as ransom.

 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.

Nancy also confessed to the crime, saying she never knew what came over her to have acted in such manner.