Army nabs suspected killer of FUNAAB student, hands him over to Police
By Emma Ogbuehi
The Nigerian Army has nabbed one Adeleye Ayomide, 23, the suspected killer of Idowu Christiana, the abducted 300-level student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State.
Also, the Lagos State Police Command, on Thursday, confirmed that the Army handed over Ayomide to them.
TheNiche had earlier reported that After collecting N350,000 ransom from her family, the kidnappers who abducted Christiana Idowu later murdered her.
The deceased was kidnapped by suspected abductors along the Ikorodu-Yaba Road in Lagos State on Monday, August 19, 2024.
Police spokesperson in Lagos, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest in a post he shared on his X (formerly Twitter) handle @benHundeyin on Thursday.
“23-year-old Ayomide Adeleye has been handed over to #LagosPoliceNG by 9 Brigade #HQNigerianArmy. The handover took place today, September 5, 2024, at about 1400hrs. Investigation is ongoing.”
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.
Christiana was kidnapped between Ikorodu and Yaba in Lagos State on her way to her place of Industrial Training.
The Student Union Government president of FUNAAB, Ibrahim Adeyemi, who broke the news of her murder said Christina was killed by her abductor.
Adeyemi said, “The Union can confirm that she was reportedly killed by her abductor. We will be addressing the matter soon.”
When Christina left home for work on August 26, she was unreachable for a while until the abductors reached out to the family through her telephone, demanding that a ransom of N3 million be paid before she could be released.
A source in the family added that after several appeals from the family, the abductors agreed that a sum of N350,000 be paid to a certain account, which the family paid, but the abductors refused to release her despite the payment.
Meanwhile, in a now-viral post on X, a user, @letter_to_jack disclosed that intelligence operatives were able to uncover the location of the abductor through the BVN and account details used in collecting ransom from the family.
The tweet read, “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.”
He added that the operatives however 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.”