MORE facts have emerged on how the Police intelligence operatives were able to track down the cell phone and location of Adeleye Ayomide, who kidnapped and later killed his female friend, Christiana Idowu, a 300-level student of the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta, Ogun State, through the BVN and account details used in collecting ransom from the family.
Ayomide had abducted Idowu and demanded the sum of N3million as a ransom from her family for her release.
According to a family source, Christiana had left her home to the University of Lagos in Yaba area, where she was observing her Industrial Training (IT) when she was kidnapped.
Her abductors had contacted her family after she was unreachable for a while, demanding the ransom before she could be released.
But after several appeals from the family, the abductors agreed that a sum of N350,000 be paid to a certain account, which the family did, but the abductors refused to release her despite the payment.
According to a viral post on X, a user, @letter_to_jack disclosed that the deceased and suspect had a mutual relationship before her abduction, adding that the suspected abductor was based in Ikorodu part of Lagos State.
The user wrote: “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 N100,000 from the betting account before agents got the betting company to lock the account.”
The X user added that the operatives, however, traced the suspected abductor to a location in Ikorodu, where the family of Christiana also reside, adding: “Armed by this information, operatives began an 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.
“With all this 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.”
