The Enugu State Police command has apprehended a woman for allegedly faking her own kidnap and demanding a ransom from her husband. Nancy Chukwu is said to have conspired with a friend to stage her abduction in Enugu and demanded for two hundred thousand naira. The woman a housewife and trader reportedly gave her husband’s phone number to her alleged accomplice- a commercial motorcyclist. The man then called her husband and, pretending to be a kidnapper, demanded the money to be paid into an account if he wanted to see his wife again. The woman is believed to have hidden herself with the man, waiting to get a positive response from the husband, Marcus Chukwu. Rather than pay, he went to the police, who eventually traced the bank account to a friend of the motorcyclist. Mrs Chukwu and the alleged accomplice were arrested, and a police spokesman later said they both confessed to the crime.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:48:18 +0000