Kidnappers pose as Aliko Dangote on Facebook, kidnap beauty queen

The Lagos state Police command has
rescued one Miss Sa’adat Bibire, who
is the current Miss Nigeria
International 2014 & daughter of an
aide to Kwara state Governor, from
her abductors.
The beauty queen was abducted two
weeks ago by a gang of kidnappers
who lured her into visiting Warri,
Delta state from Lagos by
impersonating Africa’s richest man,
Aliko Dangote on the social media
platform facebook.
Pardaing the suspects before
journalists on Wednesday, the Lagos
state police commissioner, said “the
gang is made up of students of the
Delta state Polytechnic Ozoro…they
opened a Facebook account
disguising as Aliko Dangote and
contacted Sa'adat.
They invited her to Warri with the
promise to make her Dangote brand
ambassador. On getting to Warri,
Sa'adat was kidnapped and taken to
a place on the outskirts of Ozoro
town in Isoko Local Government
Area in Delta state. The kidnappers
then contacted her family and asked
for N20m ransom, which was
supposed to be paid into a Malaysian
account.  We began a manhunt for
them after they contacted the girl’s
family but only one of them was
arrested while the others are
currently on the run.”
In his statement to the police, one of
her abductors, 23 year old Patrick
Ifada said he was lured into the
kidnap gang because of the money
offered
"I accepted to join the gang because
of the money involved. We opened a
fake Facebook account pretending to
be Alhaji Aliko Dangote and we
convinced her to come over to Delta
State to meet the businessman. At
first, our ransom was N20 million.
When they were not forthcoming
with the money, we brought it down
to N15 million and then N10 million.
I was the one staying with the victim
in our hideout. We were using the
quarters of one of our members,
Destiny. We are five in number and I
was promised a huge sum. Other
gang members are Destiny, Marcus
Omajuwa, Ugada and Chuka.
We are all students of Delta State
Polytechnic, Ozoro, ND 1. I was
studying Computer Science. She was
in our hideout for about two weeks.
We asked the Special Adviser to pay
the ransom into a Malaysian account
that one Fred helped us to set
up. None of us raped her. Destiny
told us we were only going to make
money from her family, and not to
assault her"