CITIZENS COMPASS–The 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army has handed over a 23-year-old Ayomide Adeleye to the Police after he allegedly abducted and murdered an Ikorodu resident, Christianah Idowu.
Until her gruesome murder, the Ikorodu resident was a student of the Federal University of Agriculture (FUNAAB), Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The Ikorodu resident of Ita-Oluwo, was kidnapped between Ikorodu and Yaba in Lagos State.
Spokesperson, Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Thursday, disclosed the arrest of Adeleye on his X Handle.
The suspect is a 200 Level student of Philosophy at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State.
According to Hundeyin, *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 Ikorodu resident was declared missing on Monday, August 19, 2024, on her way to UNILAG, Yaba, where she does her Industrial Attachment.
An X user and one of those seeking justice for Christianah, Man of the Letters with the ID, @letter_to_jack, gave further details about how the Ikorodu resident was murdered and buried in a shallow grave.
The post titled, “A detailed report from trusted sources,” reads, “On the 19th of August 2024, Christiannah Idowu was declared missing after which her parents were contacted by her abductors using her WhatsApp contact. The first contact with the parents was established around 8:49pm after which they sent photos of the victim in captivity to them using the WhatsApp ‘view once’ feature.
“The abductors requested for a ransom of N1,500,000.
Christiannah’s parents raised N350,000 immediately. The abductor then requested that the money be sent to a bet account through a bank deposit channel. (Info reserved for now)
“After receiving the money, on the 22nd of August, the abductor requested that bank statement of the sender be forwarded to his email (withheld).
“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“Meanwhile, on the 22nd of August, some amount was sent to the GTB account of Christianah and the amount was then withdrawn into the wema bank account belonging to the main suspect ( Name withheld for now).
“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 100,000 from the betting account before agents got the bet company to lock the account.
“Armed by these information, operatives began 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.
“The crazy thing is: the same account number used to launder some amount directly from Christiannah’s account has been posted on Twitter once to “beg for a give away free money”
“With all these 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 evidences were seen with the suspect and this includes the victim blue ITEL A56 with IMEI:35230******.
“Also, in his phones 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 personal 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 conduct further investigations.
Upon reviewing this evidence, suspect was successful taken into custody for necessary action.
“On August 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 same manner. Also that in 2020, the suspect’s own biological sister met the same fate, and the same thing has happened to Christiannah in 2024.
“It’s really devastating. I’ll give more updates as I get them.
“#JusticeForChristianah.
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