A ploy by an SS3 student to swindle his mum of N200,000 has fetched him N200,000 – but it has also brought him trouble.
Obinna Nwatu arranged his own kidnap and demanded the money from his mother Mrs. Rose Nwatu.
According to him, he needed to punish the mother because she is stingy.
Police in the state have, however, been able to bust the crime.
The joker was to arrest one Chinaza Favour Ukaigwe whose bank account was used to receive the ransom.
Abia Commissioner of Police, CP Janet Agbede, told newsmen on Friday October 8 that the incident was reported to the police by Obinna’s younger brother, Wisdom Nwatu.
“Chinaza Favour Ukaigwe told the police after arrest that Obinna Nwatu faked his own kidnap.
“He stated that Obinna and one Favour Ugorji a.k.a. “Wizzy” approached him at his shop at Aba Road Abia State and requested that he should give his bank account to enable them use and receive the school fees of their young sister. The investigation further revealed that Obinna Nwatu and Ugorji received through the account the sum of two hundred thousand naira (N200,000) paid in as a ransom by Mrs. Rose Nwatu (mother of Obinna Nwatu).
“Obinna Nwatu confessed he was not actually kidnapped. He conspired with Favour Ugorji known as “Wizzy (now at large) to intentionally go into hiding at a hotel along with Rhema University Road Aba.
“Obinna who is a Senior Secondary School 3 (SS3) student and lives in a boarding school decided to fake his own kidnap claiming that his mother Mrs. Rose Nwatu is stingy.”
