Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike,
suspected kidnap kingpin better known as Evans, says from a short distance, he
estimated the financial worth of his victims.
Evans spoke in a video played at
his trial in an Ikeja high court on Friday.
Evans 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.
The six defendants were arraigned
on August 30, 2017, on two counts of conspiracy and kidnapping.
According to the prosecution,
they allegedly kidnapped Dunu in Lagos on February 14, 2017 and collected
£223,000 (N100 million) as ransom from his family.
Four witnesses, including Dunu,
had testified during the trial on behalf of the state.
The video was played in the
courtroom during the cross-examination of Idowu Haruna, the investigating
police officer (IPO), by Emmanuel Ochai, the defence counsel to Victor Aduba,
one of Evans’ co-defendants.
In the video, Evans reportedly
gave the details of his victims who paid ransoms in six-figures and in foreign
currencies.
Haruna asked Evans how he mapped
out strategies to kidnap his victims, and he replied him, saying “when you see
someone that has money you will know”.
He told the IPO he knew that his
victims will pay the ransoms even if “it involves selling their property to
raise the funds”.
Evans said Aduba who is a
dismissed army officer, accompanied him during kidnap operations.
He added that Aduba was involved
in the botched kidnap attempt of Vincent Obianodo, chairman of The Young Shall
Grow Motors.
He, however, admitted that Aduba
did not participate in the kidnap of Dunu.
After the video was played, the
defense counsel told Haruna that Evans never identified Aduba (sixth defendant)
as a participant in the kidnap of Dunu.
Responding, Haruna said:
“According to information the victim (Dunu) gave to police, kidnappers that
came to abduct him were in army camouflage.
“This collaborated the
information provided by the kidnap kingpin that most of the kidnapping he
carried out were with the participation of the sixth defendant and that the
sixth defendant did not participate in the kidnap of Dunu.”
Following the cross-examination,
the prosecution closed its case against Evans and his five co-defendants.
Earlier, while being led in
evidence by Adebayo Haroum, the state prosecutor, Haruna had explained how
Evans spent the ransoms he allegedly received from his victims.
“The investigation carried out
revealed that the ransoms collected by the first defendant was used in
purchasing a house at Fred Shoboyede Road, Magodo, where he was arrested, “he
said.
“He purchased a second house at
Emmanuel Keshi St., Magodo and another property in Accra, Ghana.
“He used part of the ransom to
establish himself in the haulage business and some of the trucks he bought with
the ransoms were recovered by police. He also bought some landed property in
Anambra state. “
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