"When you are in Love, it can lead you to do stupid things that people will think are stupid, but you see what I did, I did for love because I love my boyfriend so much that I wanted to settle down with him. He has no money hence we both agreed to arrange my kidnap so that we can extort money from my parents.
"The money according to our initial plans was to enable my boyfriend to pay my dowry and then use part of it to settle down and use the remaining money to engage in a business that we can use to take care of ourselves after marriage."
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