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, it was published how the suspect, who
allegedly posed as prominent Nigerians on the face book, 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.
“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”.
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 the facebook for months until he invited her to 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 an 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
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