Christiana Idowu, a student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has been killed by her abductor after being kidnapped in Lagos. Christiana, undergoing industrial training at the University of Lagos, was abducted between Ikorodu and Yaba.
The Student Union Government (SUG) president of FUNAAB, Ibrahim Adeyemi, confirmed the tragic news, stating, “The Union can confirm that she was reportedly killed by her abductor. We will be addressing the matter soon.”
Christiana’s abductors initially demanded ₦3 million ransom. However, following negotiations, the family managed to send ₦350,000 to the kidnappers, but Christiana was not released.
A family source said “We paid the ransom, yet they refused to set her free.”
Intelligence operatives traced the suspect through banking details linked to the ransom payment in a significant breakthrough. The investigation uncovered that the abductor withdrew ₦100,000 from a masked betting account before authorities froze the account.
Further investigations revealed that Christiana’s abductor had a connection with her, as both had interacted on social media. The police tracked the suspect’s mobile activities, eventually leading them to his family’s residence in Ikorodu, Lagos. The abductors demanded a sum of N3m as a ransom before they could release the student.
Christiana had left her home in the Itaoluwo area of Ikorodu heading to the University of Lagos in the Yaba area of the state where she was observing her industrial training before she was abducted by the kidnappers.
A source disclosed “They are communicating with the family through her WhatsApp, and they demanded N3m. We appealed to them, and it was reduced to N1m, then N500,000, and later, they asked that we pay N350,000.
On the 23rd of August, family complied. Immediately after that, the abductor stopped communicating with the parents. Meanwhile, on the 22nd of August, some amount was sent to the GTB account of Christiannah and the amount was then withdrawn into the wema bank account belonging to the main suspect
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 who also operates the Wema Bank account
Further investigation revealed that he was able to withdraw the sum of 100,000 from the betting account before agents got the betting company to lock the account. Armed with 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. It was discovered the same account number used to launder some amount directly from Christiannah’s account has been posted on Twitter once to “beg for a giveaway free money
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.
Operatives then got confirmation of his presence in the building through active tracking of his mobile device. Immediately, gallant personnel of the Nigerian Army 174bn swooped in on the suspect to conduct an arrest.
After the arrest, damning evidence was seen with the suspect and including the victim’s blue ITEL A56 with IMEI:35230. Also, in his phone are details of the money moved and also details confirming he owns the Betting account that was locked. It was registered with his phone number.
On his phone, they found an interaction between his email and the email address that has been interacting with the family of the deceased. After reviewing the evidence, the suspect was then taken into custody to enable the operatives to conduct further investigations. Upon reviewing this evidence, the suspect was successfully taken into custody for necessary action.
On September 3, the suspect reportedly confessed to the father and the soldiers that he killed the girl and buried her in their house. There is also a new story awaiting further confirmation that in 2018, the suspect’s ex-girlfriend was killed in the same manner. Also in 2020, the suspect’s biological sister met the same fate, and the same thing happened to Christiannah in 2024.
The horrifying incident has ignited widespread outrage across Nigeria, especially on social media. Many Nigerians have taken to Twitter to demand justice for Christiana, with the hashtag #JusticeForChristianah trending.
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