A pregnant married woman, Rosemary Ubah, has been arrested in Abuja for faking her kidnap and sharing ransom collected with her boyfriend.
The FCT Police Command disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, March 20.
The suspect’s husband, Chiedozie Ubah, of Saburi II Dei-dei, Abuja, was said to have gone to the Gwa Gwa Police Division at 7:40pm on March 11, 2024, to lodge a report that his pregnant wife, Rosemary Ubah, left home to the hospital on same date for a scan but did not return home.
“He later received a call through his wife’s phone number telling him that his wife had been kidnapped and demanded for N2 million naira ransom before her release.
“He transferred the sum of N2 million into his wife’s account as instructed by the kidnapper.
“He later brought his wife to the station after her release.
“During interrogation, the wife freely confessed to have conspired with one man named Walter Ezeala ‘m’ living in the same street with them at Saburi to extort money from her husband.
“The said Walter was arrested and he confessed that his own share was eight hundred thousand (N800,000) naira and the lady took one million two hundred thousand naira (N1,200,000).
“The sum of Seven hundred and ninety three thousand five hundred naira (N793,500) cash, two (2) FCMB ATM cards and two android phone was recovered from them.
“Suspects will be charged to court soon,” the statement read in part.