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| The lovers: George and Belynda |
“Pay N10
million if you want your daughter to be released alive!”
Those were the tensed, haunting words delivered to a man and his wife via phone from unknown kidnappers who abducted their lovely daughter, Belynda Chinwe Bosa, 25.
Petrified out of their wits, the couple feared the worst. Although, they didn’t have such an amount of money ready at hands, they had embarked on fasting and prayers, hopeful that the milk of human kindness would flow into the kidnappers’ hearts and make them lower the ransom.
They had also prayed that the kidnappers would not rape their daughter. The parents however, become speechless after detectives trailing the kidnappers told them that their daughter planned her own kidnap with her lover.
They promptly disowned her for putting them through hell. Bosa, a 300level Mass Communication undergraduate of the Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, was arrested on January 12, 2015.
Detectives of the Delta State Police Command smoked her and her lover, George Itietie, a student of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu State, out of their hideout.
She was in faraway Oyibo axis of Port- Harcourt, River State, where she and her lover lodged and were demanding a ransom of N10 million from her parents in Delta State when police surprised them.
The lovers had threatened her desperate and distraught parents, insisting, “Pay N10 million, if you want your daughter to be released alive!”
The parents never knew it was their daughter that was threatening them. They had begged the supposed kidnappers until they reduced the ransom.
The first payment had just been lodged into an Ecobank account when police arrested the lovers.
Bosa said she regretted her actions and pleaded for mercy. Weeping profusely, Bosa said: “I regret getting involved in this crime. Please forgive me, daddy and mummy! I’m sorry for the stress I made you go through!” Asked why she agreed to the fraud, she lamented, “George and I love each other. We decided to get married but had no money to plan the wedding.
I decided to offer myself to be kidnapped by George so that we could extort money from my parents for the wedding. But we didn’t envisage that it would go this way.”
Bosa further said that her parents had always loved her, and even more so after she gained admission into the university three year ago.
“I can’t just explain what came over me,” she said as tears rolled down her cheeks. “I don’t know why I embarked on this shameful act. I’ve embarrassed my parents and soiled my family name for the sake of love. Can somebody please help me beg them to forgive me?”
On his part, Itietie, who repeatedly tried to hide his face, said he could not say whether the parents of the girl would still allow him to marry her after this.
He queried dryly: “Even if Belynda’s parents allow me to marry her, will they be able to obliterate the stigma from their hearts?”
While he appeared resigned to fate, Bosa said “If I’m given the chance, I’ll still marry George!”
Aside from the lovers, other kidnappers nabbed by the command were also paraded. One America Sunday Ogagawotu was described by police as the anchor-man of Bosa and her lover.
Part of the ransom was paid into Ogagawotu’s account, domiciled at the Ecobank branch, Port-Harcourt. Four out of the six other kidnappers, including one Paul Egwom, Vincent Uche Uzondu, Obinna Matthew and Otiolo, were nabbed by men of the State Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) in Asaba, along Asaba/Onitsha Expressway. They were arrested after they brought two Toyota Lexus Jeep, marked RX350 to a bush-path workshop for re-spraying.
Police spokesman, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Celetina Kalu said: “Investigation revealed that the hoodlums kidnapped one Titus Ayuba on December 14, 2014, along Okpanam road in Asaba while driving his Toyota Lexus RX 350 with registration number AKU 230 HT, blue in colour and took him to a hideout at Uda Layout in Asaba. He was released five days later after payment of N1 million. The hoodlums took away the said jeep and later called the victim on phone to demand an additional N2 million to enable him get back his vehicle. But luck ran out on them.”
Before the suspects, including Bosa ,were escorted out of the cell like goats being led to the slaughter house, Bosa’s parents had disowned her and implored the police to treat her and Itietie as criminals.
Revealing minute details of how the lovers were apprehended, Kalu said: “The suspects had established contact with the apprehensive mother of Bosa, who was already nagging her father to part with the money for the sake of their daughter’s life.
“Investigation into the incident revealed that Bosa, on leaving Lagos went to her boyfriend, Itietie at Port-Harcourt where she, Itietie and their anchor-man (America) plotted and informed her parents that she had been kidnapped.”
According to Kalu, the conspiracy was to obtain millions of naira from Bosa’s parents under duress. “America got N100, 000 as his own share of the N500, 000.00 which was lodged into his bank account,” narrated Kalu. “Bosa and her boyfriend collected N400,000.”
New Telegraph
Those were the tensed, haunting words delivered to a man and his wife via phone from unknown kidnappers who abducted their lovely daughter, Belynda Chinwe Bosa, 25.
Petrified out of their wits, the couple feared the worst. Although, they didn’t have such an amount of money ready at hands, they had embarked on fasting and prayers, hopeful that the milk of human kindness would flow into the kidnappers’ hearts and make them lower the ransom.
They had also prayed that the kidnappers would not rape their daughter. The parents however, become speechless after detectives trailing the kidnappers told them that their daughter planned her own kidnap with her lover.
They promptly disowned her for putting them through hell. Bosa, a 300level Mass Communication undergraduate of the Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, was arrested on January 12, 2015.
Detectives of the Delta State Police Command smoked her and her lover, George Itietie, a student of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu State, out of their hideout.
She was in faraway Oyibo axis of Port- Harcourt, River State, where she and her lover lodged and were demanding a ransom of N10 million from her parents in Delta State when police surprised them.
The lovers had threatened her desperate and distraught parents, insisting, “Pay N10 million, if you want your daughter to be released alive!”
The parents never knew it was their daughter that was threatening them. They had begged the supposed kidnappers until they reduced the ransom.
The first payment had just been lodged into an Ecobank account when police arrested the lovers.
Bosa said she regretted her actions and pleaded for mercy. Weeping profusely, Bosa said: “I regret getting involved in this crime. Please forgive me, daddy and mummy! I’m sorry for the stress I made you go through!” Asked why she agreed to the fraud, she lamented, “George and I love each other. We decided to get married but had no money to plan the wedding.
I decided to offer myself to be kidnapped by George so that we could extort money from my parents for the wedding. But we didn’t envisage that it would go this way.”
Bosa further said that her parents had always loved her, and even more so after she gained admission into the university three year ago.
“I can’t just explain what came over me,” she said as tears rolled down her cheeks. “I don’t know why I embarked on this shameful act. I’ve embarrassed my parents and soiled my family name for the sake of love. Can somebody please help me beg them to forgive me?”
On his part, Itietie, who repeatedly tried to hide his face, said he could not say whether the parents of the girl would still allow him to marry her after this.
He queried dryly: “Even if Belynda’s parents allow me to marry her, will they be able to obliterate the stigma from their hearts?”
While he appeared resigned to fate, Bosa said “If I’m given the chance, I’ll still marry George!”
Aside from the lovers, other kidnappers nabbed by the command were also paraded. One America Sunday Ogagawotu was described by police as the anchor-man of Bosa and her lover.
Part of the ransom was paid into Ogagawotu’s account, domiciled at the Ecobank branch, Port-Harcourt. Four out of the six other kidnappers, including one Paul Egwom, Vincent Uche Uzondu, Obinna Matthew and Otiolo, were nabbed by men of the State Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) in Asaba, along Asaba/Onitsha Expressway. They were arrested after they brought two Toyota Lexus Jeep, marked RX350 to a bush-path workshop for re-spraying.
Police spokesman, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Celetina Kalu said: “Investigation revealed that the hoodlums kidnapped one Titus Ayuba on December 14, 2014, along Okpanam road in Asaba while driving his Toyota Lexus RX 350 with registration number AKU 230 HT, blue in colour and took him to a hideout at Uda Layout in Asaba. He was released five days later after payment of N1 million. The hoodlums took away the said jeep and later called the victim on phone to demand an additional N2 million to enable him get back his vehicle. But luck ran out on them.”
Before the suspects, including Bosa ,were escorted out of the cell like goats being led to the slaughter house, Bosa’s parents had disowned her and implored the police to treat her and Itietie as criminals.
Revealing minute details of how the lovers were apprehended, Kalu said: “The suspects had established contact with the apprehensive mother of Bosa, who was already nagging her father to part with the money for the sake of their daughter’s life.
“Investigation into the incident revealed that Bosa, on leaving Lagos went to her boyfriend, Itietie at Port-Harcourt where she, Itietie and their anchor-man (America) plotted and informed her parents that she had been kidnapped.”
According to Kalu, the conspiracy was to obtain millions of naira from Bosa’s parents under duress. “America got N100, 000 as his own share of the N500, 000.00 which was lodged into his bank account,” narrated Kalu. “Bosa and her boyfriend collected N400,000.”
New Telegraph
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