Church protocol officer arrested for blackmailing girls with nude photos

A church protocol officer in the habit of luring church girls to hotels and taking their nude photographs subsequently using the photographs to blackmail them in exchange for money has been arrested in Lagos.

The suspect, Victor Duru, a Madonna University drop out, was arrested in Surulere on Thursday, after repeatedly blackmailing his church member and girlfriend.

One of his girlfriends, name withheld, whose pictures he had taken in conjunction with his friend at gun point while lodging her in an hotel in Ijeshatedo, called at RRS Headquarter to report her experience.

Mr Duru, 23 years old and a protocol officer at a new generation church (name withheld) based in Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos was investigated and discovered to have been using the nude photographs of his girlfriend to blackmail her in exchange for money.

It was also discovered that the suspect was keeping the nude photographs of other girls while lodging them in hotels and his apartment in Ijeshatedo.

Sources revealed that the suspect obtained the nude photographs of the victim with the assistance of a third party at gun – point while there is a growing suspicion that Mr Duru also laced the drink of another girl with sleeping drug as the photographs obtained from one of his mobile phones revealed.