Police arrest two for staging kidnapping, demanding N30m ransom in Ebonyi

The suspects are recognized as Fortune Cletus Onuoha and Nkwo Godspower Chiemerie, aka Hulk.

The command said that on thirty first October, 2026, at about 10:30 p.m., the daddy of Fortune Cletus Onuoha contacted the Control Room to report that his son had been kidnapped from his hostel in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

The father additional reported receiving view-once movies and voice notes displaying his son tied up, alongside calls for by the purported kidnappers for a ransom of N30 million, with threats to kill him if the ransom was not paid.

The surveillance and discreet investigative efforts ultimately yielded a breakthrough on the evening of fifth November, 2026 when operatives arrested the 2 suspects as they emerged from the room the place that they had been hiding.

The improvement was disclosed in a press release issued on Saturday by the spokesperson of the command, SP Joshua Ukandu, and made accessible to journalists in Abakaliki.

The Commissioner of Police, Ebonyi State Command, CP Hope Urunwa Okafor, warned members of the general public towards resorting to such felony schemes, stressing that staging a kidnapping not solely inflicts extreme emotional trauma on mother and father, guardians and family members but in addition diverts precious police sources from addressing real safety threats.

She additional warned that anybody considering such an act needs to be conscious that staging a kidnapping and making false claims of abduction are felony offences punishable beneath the regulation.