A 19-year-old girl identified as Chinaza Nwogu has been arrested by the Imo State police for conniving with her fiancé, Emmanuel Sunday, 29, and her brother to kidnap her 88-year-old father, Pa Njoku Louis, in a bid to raise funds for their wedding.
Chinaza and Sunday had also reportedly also stolen the victims Sienna car which they had used as collateral for a loan from one Emeka Ejike from Nekede who has also been arrested.
According to Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba,
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“The story of Pa Njoku is pathetic as his own son, his close friend, Emmanuel Sunday, who is a prospective in-law and his sister, Chinaza, connived to kidnap their father.
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The couple had been desperate to get the wedding moving on as Chinaza was already 8 months pregnant.
However, Sunday said that the whole idea to kidnap his prospective father-in-law, Pa Njoku was the idea of his son.
“Pa Njoku’s son, who is my friend, had told me that we have to kidnap his father so that I could raise money to organise the traditional wedding of his sister who is my girl friend because she is already eight months pregnant,” he said.
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