{"id":66688,"date":"2021-08-04T19:13:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=66688"},"modified":"2021-08-04T20:43:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:43:21","slug":"evans-to-court-im-not-a-kidnapper-but-a-legitimate-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/08\/04\/evans-to-court-im-not-a-kidnapper-but-a-legitimate-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Kingpin Evans arrested by Kyari denies kidnapping days after the cop&#8217;s criminal allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One covert operation out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/piece\/2021\/07\/30\/dcp-abba-kayri-profile-member-of-international-association-of-chiefs-of-police-other-achievements-challenged-by-hushpuppi-scandal\/#HIGH_PROFILE_CASES\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several high profile cases<\/a> carried out by recently suspended police boss, DCP Abba Kyari is the arrest of Nigeria\u2019s most notorious Kidnap kingpin, Billionaire Kidnapper Chukwudumeme Onwaumadike Aka Evans and his Gang members in Lagos State. In a fresh development, the kingpin whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/2020\/09\/18\/again-evans-murder-trial-stalled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cases have stalled<\/a> severally in court has now made a fresh u turn denying the crime allegations levied against him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66761\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/ola_peter\/2021\/08\/04\/evans-to-court-i-am-not-a-kidnapper-but-a-legitimate-businessman-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/ola_peter\/2021\/08\/04\/evans-to-court-i-am-not-a-kidnapper-but-a-legitimate-businessman-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/ola_peter\/2021\/08\/04\/evans-to-court-i-am-not-a-kidnapper-but-a-legitimate-businessman-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/ola_peter\/2021\/08\/04\/evans-to-court-i-am-not-a-kidnapper-but-a-legitimate-businessman-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyrai and team posing with suspected kidnapper, Evans, after his arrest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is coming just few days after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/08\/01\/breaking-police-commission-suspends-dcp-abba-kyari-over-huspuppi-saga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspension of the &#8216;Super Cop&#8217;<\/a> who led the operation of his arrest, however, Evans&#8217; new claim is not officially linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/08\/01\/details-of-the-hushpuppis-operation-that-indicted-abba-kyari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyari&#8217;s criminal allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Evans, an alleged billionaire kidnapper has stated that he is not a kidnapper but a legitimate businessman who deals with ornaments and Horlicks.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that\u00a0Onwuamadike is standing trial alongside Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba over the alleged kidnap of Donatus Dunu, chief executive officer of Maydon Pharmaceutical Ltd and collection of\u00a0\u00a3223,000 (N100 million) as ransom from his family.<\/p>\n<p>All the defendants who were first arraigned on August 30, 2017, on two counts of conspiracy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/24\/gunmen-disclose-theyd-keep-kidnapping-for-ransom-until-kanu-stop-agitating-for-biafra-18-year-old-abductee\/\">kidnapping<\/a>, have\u00a0maintained their innocence.<\/p>\n<p>After being led in by his\u00a0defense counsel\u00a0Victor Okpara on Tuesday August 3, Evans\u00a0denied all allegations of kidnapping levelled against him by the Lagos State Government, insisting he was a legitimate businessman.<\/p>\n<p>Claiming that he was\u00a0coerced into admitting being a kidnapper after the police\u00a0in a bid to make him confess, extra-judicially killed four individuals in his presence, the alleged kidnapper also denied having &#8220;Evans&#8221; as his nickname.<\/p>\n<p>He said;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI live at Fred Shoboyede Street, Magodo Phase II, Lagos. I am a businessman and I deal in ornaments and Horlicks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My lord, my name is not Evans and I don\u2019t have a nickname.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi and Aduba, two former soldiers of the Nigerian Army who also testified on Tuesday, denied being accomplices to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Aduba recounted refusing to sign a written statement admitting to the crime after allegedly being ordered to do so by\u00a0one Idowu Haruna, said to be a member of the police intelligence response team (IRT). He also showed\u00a0the court an injury on his body, claiming he was taken to a \u201ctheatre\u201d where he was beaten and cut with a machete by Haruna.<\/p>\n<p>Aduba also recalled how three men; Felix Chinemeren, Paul Samyan and Chukwuma Nwosu who were initially paraded before the media as kidnappers, were killed by members of the IRT.<\/p>\n<p>He said;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">\u201cI was still being told to sign some papers but I refused and I said if I refuse I will travel (slang for killed). At that point, Idowu Haruna brought out his phone for me to look at some pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I looked at it, I discovered it was the dead bodies of the three men with whom I was in custody. That was how I was forced to sign the papers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0defence team of Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike a.k.a Evans and that of his five co-defendants closed their case before the Ikeja high court, Justice\u00a0Hakeem Oshodi gave the defence 30 days to file their final written addresses.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution was given another 30 days to respond to the final written addresses of the defence.<\/p>\n<p>The case was then adjourned till November 5 for adoption of the final written addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One covert operation out of several high profile cases carried out by recently suspended police boss, DCP Abba Kyari is the arrest of Nigeria\u2019s most notorious Kidnap kingpin, Billionaire Kidnapper Chukwudumeme Onwaumadike Aka Evans and his Gang members in Lagos State. 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