Two years ago, the media was awash
with stories on the gruesome murder of 25-year-old Cynthia Osokogu,
daughter of a retired general, inside a hotel room in Amuwo Odofin local
government area of Lagos State by friends she met on facebook,
a social network.
Today, some individuals still engage
in using the social media to commit criminal activities. The
latest is the arrest of a 32-year-old graduate of the Nnamdi
Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Iweka Chigoziem Nnamdi, by policemen
at Ajah Division, Lagos.
Penultimate week, in Saturday
Vanguard, published how the suspect, who allegedly posed as prominent
Nigerians on the facebook page, used the medium to woo his
unsuspecting victims, mostly women, through the offers of job and
business opportunities.
When people applied, he would select
only the females, married and single, and invite them to a hotel where the
purported interview was scheduled. However he would identify himself
as the agent or personal assistant to the prominent Nigerian that has the job
and demand for sex, with a promise to facilitate the application.
But unknown to the victims, a
hidden camera is activated once the ceiling fan is switched on, records
all the fondling and sexual activities, at the end of which the
suspect would blackmail them, with a threat to post their nude
pictures and videos on the internet if his demand for money was not met.
He allegedly succeeded in
blackmailing about 12 married women. The last straw was said to be an
encounter with a 27-year-old female banker identified simply as Judith.
A close friend of the banker, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity, narrated the story: “Judith is
presently a shadow of her former self because of Nnamdi’s mischief.
This is because she got information about her sex video on the internet
from close friends.
She met the suspect who posed as
Mike Adenuga on the internet and was convinced because of Adenuga’s
photograph. They got chatting; at a point, she accepted an invitation to
meet him in an hotel two months ago. But when she got there, she met
Nnamdi who identified himself as Adenuga’s P.A and told Judith that she would
have to go through him to see his boss.
One thing led to the other and she
found herself in bed with him. But she got the shock of her life when Nnamdi
called her on phone to pay some money into his account, threatening to
post her sex video on the internet if she didn’t cooperate.
Judith called his bluff but was
shocked when Nnamdi made good his threat by first posting photographs
on the internet. Judith was yet to recover from the shock when Nnamdi went
ahead to download the video of them making love on her facebook timeline.
About 325 of Judith’s facebook friends watched the video.
“The video cost her, her five years
relationship. After that, Nnamdi kept calling and threatening to post the
second sex video on the internet if Judith did not pay him. It was at this
point that she reported the case to policemen at Ajah who asked her to play
along, in the process of which he was arrested”.
Laptops containing videos and pictures
of different women were said to have been recovered by policemen during a
search of the suspect’s apartment in Ikota Villa Estate, Ajah.
Police sources said
about 12 victims contacted on phone revealed that they were married
women, with some of them lamenting that the scandal destroyed their marriages.
One of them (names withheld), who spoke
with operatives on phone when asked to come and testify, was quoted to have
said: “ I do not care if he has been arrested, killed or alive because the harm
has already been done. Can you imagine that scoundrel sent a video of me
and him on bed to my husband?. Today, I have been sent out of my matrimonial
home. Of what use is my coming to testify? Will that restore my marriage?”
Lagos State Police Public Relations
Officer, Ngozi Braide, who confirmed the suspect’s arrest, narrated: “The case
was reported to the police on April, 20, 2014. The complainant alleged that the
suspect chatted with her on facebook for months until he invited her
to a hotel in Ajah, under the pretence that he was Mike Adenuga, the Chairman of
Globacom.
When Nnamdi finally met with the
victim on March, 14, 2014, he chatted with her and finally convinced the
complainant to have sex with him. Unknown to her, the suspect had bugged the
hotel room with camera. So while they were having sex, the entire action was
being filmed.
“After this affair, the suspect
started sending threatening text messages to her, demanding she pay various
sums of money to him, otherwise he would send the nude pictures to her friends
and colleagues at her office. He also sent a GTB bank account number into which
she was to pay.
“After his arrest on April, 21,
2014, in a hotel at Ajah and following interrogation, police recovered the
suspect’s laptop in which he had quite a number of sex pictures and videos
of the complainant and also a host of other victims. He made a confessional
statement to the effect that he did all that police recovered in his
laptop, his BB and Techno phone.
On his laptop, police discovered
that he had a list of prominent Nigerians such as Mike Adenuga; Pius Ayim
Pius; Nwabara Adolphus; Van Vicker, a Ghanaian actor; and Joy
Nnwedu, among others. He had been using these images and names to defraud
unsuspecting Nigerians. In fact, he has broken marriages as confirmed by
our investigations.”
The suspect, according to her, has
been charged to court on an eight-count charge, informing that
the case comes up tomorrow ( May 26) at Court 6, Tinubu, Lagos
State.
According to the police
spokesperson, the suspect was as “cool as cucumber” after he was
arrested, smiling like he had not committed any crime.
Culled from Vanguard.
This is my take on this story: Like I
always say, people do not regret their actions, they only regret the fact that
they act caught and that is the sad part.
These women, married women for that
matter feel it is okay to sleep around for a job or contract and after they get the jobs or contracts, they would have gone to church to give
testimonies and everyone shout “hallelujah”. This is the lie a lot of people
lead in secret. What this fool ‘guy’ did was wrong but what these woman are also doing is equally bad.
The guy is a fraudster and a fool but doesn't these women sleeping around with another man just for financial
gain makes them Prostitutes?
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