Social media agog over kidnap, murder of FUNAAB female student
By Efe Onodjae
The gruesome murder and kidnapping of Christiannah Idowu, a student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has ignited a frenzy on social media as netizens demand justice and immediate prosecution of the alleged killer.
Netizens attribute her death to Adeleye Ayomide, a 300-level philosophy student at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) and a friend of the deceased.
Information gathered by our correspondent reveals that Ayomide confessed to the crime.
According to a detailed report obtained by Vanguard, Christiannah Idowu was declared missing on August 19, 2024, after her parents were contacted by her abductors via her own WhatsApp account. The first contact with her parents occurred around 8:49 p.m., followed by photos of Christiannah in captivity sent using WhatsApp’s ‘view once’ feature.
The abductors demanded a ransom of N1,500,000. Christiannah’s parents managed to raise N350,000 immediately. The abductors then instructed that the money be deposited into a betting account through a bank deposit (details withheld for now).
After receiving the money, on August 22, the abductors requested that the bank statement of the sender be forwarded to an email.
On August 23, the family complied. However, the abductors ceased communication immediately afterward.
On August 22, an amount was transferred to Christiannah’s GTBank account and subsequently withdrawn into a Wema Bank account belonging to the primary suspect (name withheld for now).
By August 29, intelligence operatives confirmed with the bank that the BVN linked to the masked betting account allegedly belonged to the suspect, who also operates the Wema Bank account (account number withheld for now).
Further investigation revealed that the suspect withdrew N100,000 from the betting account before agents could have the account locked.
Operatives began investigating the suspect, who was found to have a mutual relationship with Christiannah Idowu, as evidenced by their Instagram interactions.
The same account number used to launder money from Christiannah’s account had previously been posted on Twitter soliciting a giveaway.
With all this information, operatives tracked the suspect’s phone activities and messages, leading them to his parents’ house in Ikorodu. Active tracking confirmed his presence at the location, and Nigerian Army personnel from the 174th Battalion conducted his arrest.
The suspect’s phone contained details of the money transfers and confirmed ownership of the betting account. It also showed correspondence between his personal email and the email used to communicate with Christiannah’s family.
After reviewing the evidence, the suspect was taken into custody for further investigation.
On August 3, the suspect reportedly confessed to both his father and soldiers that he had killed Christiannah and buried her at his home.
There are also unconfirmed reports that in 2018, the suspect’s ex-girlfriend was killed in a similar manner, and in 2020, his biological sister met the same fate. Christiannah’s murder in 2024 adds to this troubling pattern.
Reacting to the trend Human rights activist lawyer and alumni of OOU, Festus Ogun, “I’m so embarrassed that this boy is a student of OOU. On behalf of the management and alumni of OOU, we hereby disassociate ourselves from him. He doesn’t represent our values. #JusticeForChristianah”
When contacted, Lagos State Police Spokesman SP Benjamin Hundeyin stated “The suspect is still with the Army, and the police will respond once he is in their custody.
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