Christiana Idowu, the kidnapped student of the Federal University of Agriculture, FUNAAB ,Abeokuta, Ogun State, has been murdered by her abductor.
Christiana was kidnapped between Ikorodu and Yaba in Lagos State.
The news of her murder was made known by the President of the Student Union Government, SUG, Ibrahim Adeyemi, on Thursday.
“The Union can confirm that she was reportedly killed by her abductor. We will be addressing the matter soon,” Adeyemi said.
Her abductors had, on August 26 demanded a sum of N3m as a ransom before they could release the student.
Christiana was kidnapped after she left home in the Itaoluwo area of Ikorodu and was heading to the University of Lagos at Yaba where she was observing her industrial training.
The abductors reached out to her family through her telephone, demanding that a ransom of N3m be paid before she could be released.
After several appeals from the family, the abductors reduced the ransom to N350,000 which the family paid into an account provided by the kidnappers.
but the abductors refused to release her despite the payment.
Through the BVN and account details linked to the account, police were able to locate where Christiana was kept.
“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,” said a source familiar with the investigation.
The source added that operatives 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 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.”