How Pregnant Woman Faked Own Kidnap, Shared N2m Ransom From Husband with Boyfriend, Video Emerges

• The police in the FCT have arrested a pregnant woman who faked her kidnap and made her husband pay N2 million ransom
• According to the police, the pregnant woman shared the ransom payment with her boyfriend, with whom they planned the act together
• The husband had earlier reported at a police station that his wife had gone for anti-natal at the hospital and did not return

FCT, Abuja - The FCT police command has arrested a pregnant woman who faked her kidnap and compelled her husband to pay N2 million ransom for her release.

Findings by the police showed that the wife shared the money with her boyfriend. She was said to taken N1.2 million of the ransom while the boyfriend got a share of N800,000.

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Benneth Igweh, the police commissioner of the FCT, disclosed this in a tweet and video shared on Wednesday, March 20. The police boss said the cash of N793,500 was later recovered from them following the arrest.

Abuja: How pregnant woman faked her kidnap

The husband, identified as Chiedozie Ubah, who lives in Saburi II, Dei-dei in Abuja, had reported the incident at Gwagwa police division that his wife, identified as Rosemary Ubah, left the house for anti-natal at the hospital.

However, the man said Rosemary did not return home as expected. Later, Chiedozie got a call that his wife had been kidnapped and asked to send the sum of N2m to his wife's account.

Chiedozie eventually sent the money and his wife was released. After her release, the man took his wife to the police station.

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There, Rosemary confessed that she staged the alleged kidnap with the said boyfriend named Walter Ezeala.

Below is the video of the police briefing:

Lagos: Police react to kidnappers' den claim

Legit.ng earlier reported that the Lagos state police command had clarified the claim that the kidnappers' den was busted in the state, saying the arrested persons were travel agents and scammers.

While reacting to the trending video, Benjamin Hundeyin, the command spokesperson, said the voice was wrong and quoted a report where the situation was rightly reported.

According to the report, the arrested persons were travel agent scammers who collected money from the rescued Cameroonians and Gabonians and promised them jobs in Nigeria.

Source: Legit.ng