AS PANIC GRIPS KIDNAP
VICTIMS… …Police keep Evans in secret cell in Abuja …IG, top officers to
interrogate him at Force Headquarters …Detectives on the trail of fleeing
accomplices …More kidnappers will fall —
Kidnap kingpin,
Chukwudidumeme Onuamadike, also know as Evans, is cooling his feet in a secret
cell at Louise Edet House, Police Force Headquarters, in the Federal Capital
Territory, FCT, Abuja; and this is authoritative. Sunday Vanguard
investigations, as well as information provided by our usually very dependable
sources, revealed that the relocation of Evans to Abuja was on the express instructions
of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.
The tactical manoeuvre was carried out by the
IGP’s Special Squad and was not known to many. It was the very classified
nature of the operation to relocate Evans to Force Headquarters, Abuja, that
gave rise to the wild and wide speculation that the gangster had vanished.
Consequently, the false alarm created panic in most of Evans’ victims. In fact,
Sunday Vanguard telephone lines were almost jammed as calls poured in from
kidnap victims seeking assistance on what next to do as they claimed that their
lives were in danger, following the purported vanishing of Evans. Evans at one
of the houses (Dens) in Ejigbo IGP orders relocation His relocation to Abuja,
sources hinted, is with a view to ensuring that the Inspector-General of Police
and the management team of the Force, personally interrogate the kidnap
kingpin. The objective, we were made to understand, is to get more information
relating to his exploits in the criminal world. Vanguard had exclusively
suggested, two weeks ago, that the suspect was slated for movement to the Force
Headquarters, Abuja, to interact with police chiefs. Police sources disclosed
that his relocation to Abuja is a temporary measure aimed at ensuring
water-tight interrogation pursuant to establishing a solid case against the
suspect. These are all efforts geared towards conducting a successful
prosecution in court. Indeed, the police, yesterday, frowned at the report
which tended to create the impression that Evans had disappeared from custody.
In a statement, Ref No.
CZ:5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.1, reacting to the report, the Force Headquarters
said: “RE – EVANS VANISHES, BILLIONAIRE KIDNAPPER’S WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN “Evans
is intact in Police Custody, investigation into all the crimes he has committed
which include several kidnappings; armed robbery and murder are ongoing. The
Police have made significant progress in the investigations of these crimes.
“The public should disregard and discountenance all media reports in the social
and print media that he has vanished or released and all criminal charges
against him dropped as UNTRUE and ABSOLUTE FALSEHOOD. “Evans is in police
custody and would be arraigned in court along with other members of his gang on
completion of investigation.
“ The statement was
signed by Force PRO, CSP Jimoh Moshood Shock and panic Sources had earlier told
Sunday Vanguard that members of the public could not have expected the police
to disclose their method of investigation. “So, we are expected to broadcast
every where we are taking him to for further investigation? Do you know if we
are taking him to identify his hide outs in different parts of the country or
to identify his suspected high profile accomplices that are scattered all over
the country”, one of the sources said. “Let me tell you, after we arrested
Evans, and he started opening up, most of his accomplices have been on the run
and detectives are seriously on their trail. If we need Evans to personally
take us to Owerri, for example, to identify the hideouts of his gang and
authenticate investigations, should it be announced publicly?
“Evans is with us,
cooling his head in one of our safest cells in Abuja. At the appropriate time,
we will bring him to Lagos to face the law court. That is when all these
rumour-mongering will stop.” Sunday Vanguard also discovered that even members
of the IGP’s Intelligence Response Team, IRT, in Lagos, were not aware of the
directives for Evans’ re-location to Force headquarters, Abuja. Furthermore, it
was gathered that his continued stay in the police cell in Lagos, where nosy
reporters were having a field day, sneaking in to confront him, rattled police
authorities and they decided on a “ discreet, well-coordinated and thoroughly
investigated case” against the suspect, aimed at making him pay for his crime.
Meanwhile, panic has gripped many of Evan’s kidnap victims who are afraid of
the unknown since unconfirmed reports said he had vanished. It took the
intervention of Vanguard Crime Editor to calm their nerves. One of them,who
confided in Sunday Vanguard over the shoddy handling of the Evan’s story,
expressed his readiness to go on exile if the story of his excape turned up to
be true. They, however, expressed optimism that police authorities should not
leave any stone unturned to bring the suspect to book. When he was arrested,
Evans, aged 36, and who hails from Umudim Village, Nnewi North Local Government
Area of Anambra State, was said to be wearing a wrist-watch valued at $117, 000
and was also discovered to be in possession of and using over 100 telephone SIM
cards of various network providers for his nefarious operations. More
kidnappers will fall – Adeboye The General
Overseer of the
Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has renewed his
holy war against kidnappers and those he described as making life difficult for
the common man. Before his message, titled, ABBA FATHER 6, at the July edition
of the church’s monthly Holy Ghost Service, Adeboye said his focus would be
prosperity, stressing, however, that he did not fall into the category of
prosperity preachers. Nine days after Adeboye declared holy war on kidnappers
and herdsmen killing people across the nation, suspected kidnapping kingpin,
Chukwudubem George Onwuamadike, aka
Evans, and some of his
gang members were arrested in Lagos. Visibly still angry at the continued
activities of kidnappers across the country, the pastor, at last Friday’s
programme, urged the mammoth crowd to pray: “Father, not just the kingpins,
root out every kidnapper in every part of the country.” On prosperity
preaching, he said: “Some are called prosperity preachers because they always
preach about prosperity; some are called faith preachers because they focus on
faith. “Some are called grace preachers because they focus on grace. Very few
are called holiness preachers. Which group do you think I belong: ‘Holiness
preacher.’”
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