Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the High Court in Ikeja, Lagos on Friday sentenced Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, and his accomplices – Uche Amadi and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu to life imprisonment. Kokomansion understands that the court found Evans guilty of the kidnap of Mr Donatius Dunu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Ltd. In a […]
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Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, AKA Evans, has claimed that he saw hell in the hands of suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari. Evans had stated this at an Ikeja Special Offences Court, while denying kidnapping a businessman, Sylvanus Ahamonu, and collecting a 420,000 dollar ransom from his family. NAN reports […]
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Justice Adedayo Akintoye of an Igbosere High Court, Lagos, on Wednesday ordered the suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans to engage a counsel by May 17. Akintoye gave the order due to the absence of Evans’ counsel, Mr Chino Obiagwu, SAN, for the third time in a row which again stalled the continuation of […]
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Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, suspected kidnap kingpin better known as Evans, on Friday narrated how he was allegedly tortured by members of intelligence response team of the inspector general of police (IGP) and the special anti-robbery squad (SARS). Evans narrated this at the continuation of a trial-within-trial at an Ikeja high court in Lagos where he is […]
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One Mr Ogungbeje, the lawyer to the kidnapper popularly known as Evans, has decided to withdraw from the kidnap case of his client for personal reasons. According to Evans’ lawyer, “they” has been able to enrich the basic principles of criminal jurisprudence in Nigeria. “For the sake of history, we have been able to enrich […]
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Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeje Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, staged a drama at a high court in Igbosere, Lagos, on Monday by refusing to alight from the vehicle which conveyed him from the prison to court. After failing in the bid to convince the suspect to follow him to the courtroom, the prison official told the […]
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The Lagos State High Court in Igbosere has dismissed two applications seeking to quash charges of murder and illegal sales of firearms preferred against alleged kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, in a ruling on Friday, described the applications as misconceived and lacking in merit. The judge held that the proof of evidence […]
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The federal high court in Lagos has awarded N2 million against the police in the case involving Okwuchukwu Obiechina, brother-in-law of Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, suspeted kidnapper better known as Evans. Obiechina had filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the police for “illegally” detaining him in the course of investigations into Evans’ alleged kidnap. In his ruling […]
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The lawyer representing Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, the kidnap kingpin popularly known as Evans, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has accused the police of making his client plead guilty when he was arraigned at an Ikeja high court on Wednesday. Evans as well as two of the five suspects arraigned with him, pleaded guilty to the two-count charge of kidnapping […]
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Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and kidnapping before a judge of the Ikeja High Court, on Wednesday. Evans, who has been in police custody since June 10, was charged with kidnapping and collection of ransom. He pleaded guilty to the two-count charge. Hakeem Oshodi, the presiding […]
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