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  • ‘Stop calling me billionaire, I only have few thousands,’ notorious kidnapper Evans reveals

    Notorious kidnap kingpin, Evans, has cautioned the media against addressing him as a billionaire.

    He noted that most of the monies he collected as ransom from his victims were shared amongst his gang members while he invested his shares in properties.

    Evans told Tribune Newspapers that it would be foolishness to carry monies collected from his victims to the bank.

    In his words: “I am not a billionaire.”

    “I don’t have money in my bank accounts.

    I may have like N20,000 in some, but the kind of money you are expecting to hear are not in the accounts.

    “I have [domiciliary account] but I don’t have money in it. It is only somebody who is a fool that would take such huge amount I collect to the bank.

    “I don’t have any property in FESTAC. I only have the two Magodo properties in Lagos, and then another two in Accra.

    “These are just the properties I have. However, some people have been saying I have houses all over the world. Some said I have house in South Africa, but I don’t.

    “It was not only me who took all the money. I had people working for me and I gave them their shares.

    “Instead of keeping the money in bank or somewhere else, I used it to buy houses. I have told the police how much I bought the houses.

    “I have told them how much I spent in building the one in Ghana.”

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the billionaire kingpin was arrested in Lagos on Saturday, June 10 while preparing to travel out of the country. The arrest was carried out by the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and led by ACP Abba Kyari.

  • EXCLUSIVE: ‘I am not a bad person, ask Anglican Church at Ikosi-Ketu, Lagos,’ Evans

    • I helped indigent students pay school fees, give money to widows in church
    • Moves to name South-east big names behind the kidnap of his victims

    Arrested Nigeria’s most celebrated and controversial billionaire kidnapper, Chikwudidume Onuadike alias Evans has apparently made up his mind not to go down alone in his present travail with his latest outburst. The self-styled philanthropist extraordinaire exclusively whispered to TheNewsguru.com that he was not at any rate alone in the kidnapping business saying that some southeast businessmen specifically fromAnambra State gave him names of those he kidnapped for ransom.

    Evans equally informed that the loot was shared with his informants on 60/40 formula; some of them he said lives in Italy and France.

    According to him, he didn’t know those who had made it big in business but got clues of the residents and itineraries of his victims for kidnap especially, the foiled kidnap attempt of the chairman and chief executive officer of the Young Shall Grow Motors, Chief Vincent Ujumadu.

    “I have given the Police names and identities of those who give me names, residential addresses, and movements of my victims but I think they are keeping secret for now because they want to arrest them. But if I wait and they do not arrest them or make their names public, I will tell the world before I die. Some of them are living in Italy and France and are into drugs.

    I will not die alone because they too benefited from the money I collected,” Evans said.

    The self-styled philanthropist also quipped; “I am not a bad person, you can go and ask about at the Anglican church at Ikosi- Ketu how I have helped so many indigent students pay their school fees, I give money liberally to the widows in the church, paid their house rents and even donated hugely for the renovation of the church and any church project.

    The only time and can describe myself as wicked is when I want relations of my victims to pay a ransom, then I was always mad at

    any of my victims because I want them to entreat on their relations to dance to my tunes.”

    On why he took to crime, a highly snaky Evans blamed it on his ordeal in the hands of the Nigeria Customs who he alleged seized his 40 feet container of auto spare parts. He said, “When I came to Lagos, I had nobody to assist me so I started selling ‘black market’ fuel at Suru-Alaba along Lagos/Badagry Expressway, where I was making small money from the business. Later I met one Kingsley who introduced me ‘rice and beans’ and we made so much money and we decided to go into the importation of auto spare parts. But at the Apapa Ports, the customs seized the goods and we were back to square one.

    Later I met one Kingsley who introduced me ‘rice and beans’ and we made so much money and we decided to go into the importation of auto spare parts. But at the Apapa Ports, the customs seized the goods and we were back to square one. With this, my friend said we should relocate to Benin and start kidnapping; that is how I went into full-scale kidnapping.”

     

    Meanwhile, the Bishop of Lagos West, Anglican Diocese, Revd James Odedeji has refuted claims by the notorious kidnapper of making huge donations to the church.

    Speaking through one Ven. Paul Adeyemi who contacted TheNewsGuru.com via the telephone, Odedeji said: “We have verified it and very certain that Evans is not a member of any elements of our church. We don’t know him and we have no affiliation with his person”

    “All that he his saying about paying school fees for indigent students, helping widows, and donating hugely to renovations of our church are pure lies.Please ignore the false information, it is only meant to mislead the public,” he said.

    When asked if Evans had probably been one of the anonymous philanthropists in the church, Odedeji said ‘We know all our members, he is not one of us and he has never been part of us”

    He added that Evans may be putting up such lies in order to whip up undue sentiments to attract public sympathy.

     

  • ‘I will become a kidnapper If Evans is executed’- Young Nigerian declares

    T-Shine Eko shocked many of his friends on Facebook when he bluntly affirmed that he will become a kidnapper If the recently arrested kidnap kingpin, Evans gets executed.

    Evans reportedly confessed to having been part of virtually all the high profile kidnap incidents that took place in places including but not limited to Lagos, Port Harcourt, Onitsha, Aba during preliminary questioning.His exploits also included the 2013 attempted kidnapping of the owner of The Young Shall Grow Motors.

    T-Shine said Nigeria is a useless country adding that If Evans is killed; he is going to become a kidnapper and hurt innocent Nigerians. He indicated that what the notorious kidnapper did was not different from the what politicians and leaders have been subjecting Nigerians to,and as such, Evans should be freed and even given an award for his feats.

    “Nigeria is so useless, I don’t know this man but I just don’t want him dead. If he gets killed by the stupid Nigerian Government on Sunday , I swear me T-Shine Sisi Eko will replace him. I must kill uncountable souls” he threatened.

     

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  • ‘Give my son second chance,’ father of kidnap kingpin, Evans begs Govt

    ‘Give my son second chance,’ father of kidnap kingpin, Evans begs Govt

    Father of the billionaire kidnapper and drug trafficker recently arrested by the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Chukwudi Dumeme Onwuamadike, otherwise known as Evans, Stephen Onwuamadike, has pleaded with the police to forgive his son as he was misled into a life of crime by his mother.

    The older Onwuamadike who lamented that he did not know that his son was living in ill-gotten affluence in Lagos while he wallowed in poverty in the village, said he was shocked when he saw his son being paraded on the television after his arrest.

    The old man said the last time he saw Evans was in 2008 and had warned him to desist from crime and had no idea that his son had come into so much wealth albeit acquired illegally.

    Onwuamadike who lives in his country home at Akammili, Umudim, Nnewi Local Government Area of Anambra State, made these fresh statements in an interview with New Telegraph said that he tried his best to raise Evans by sending him to the best schools around but insisted that it was when his mother left him when he was three-years-old, that she started manipulating him which culminated into his becoming a crime kingpin.

    In the interaction, the father said he used to be very wealthy but Evans’ mother led to his downfall and she left him with nothing, taking along the young child with her.

    His current wife and her son also accused Evans’ mother of being the person behind Evans’ predicament, painting him as a good and loving son who was only under the influence of his mother.

    “I am begging the Federal Government to forgive Evans and give him another chance. I have not been able to sleep since I received the phone call informing me that my son has been arrested.

    My son is a good boy, but his mother misled him. She manipulated him spiritually. I was devastated when I heard the news through a telephone call; since that call, I had not been able to sleep.

    I believe in a straight forward and honest life. If I noticed someone is not honest, I run away from the person. When my business was thriving, I did business with white people.

    Evans the kidnap kingpin was given an hero’s welcome at the police headquarters.

    I was one of the early millionaires that emerged from this town until things went wrong courtesy of my first wife in 1985. She caused me so many problems and eventually caused my financial ruins.

    In fact, she brought me down to where I am today. I’m suffering and I can barely put food on my table.

    I tried to raise my son well and send to good schools but my estranged wife kept interfering in his academics.

    You won’t believe that my son, Chukwudumeje (Evans) has not visited home since 2008. The last time I saw him was 10 years ago. I asked him the sort of business he was into. He said he was into drug trafficking.

    I advised him to desist because it was an illicit business and the law was against it. I told him plainly that it was better to be involved in a legitimate business and wait for God’s blessings.

    I did good business and it thrived; I was very successful. I have traveled to so many countries of the world in the course of my business.

    His mother started manipulating him when he was only three years old; look at where it has got him. I don’t even have his phone number.

    I’m pleading with the Nigerian authorities to have mercy on him and give him a second chance. He was misdirected and misled by his mother.
    I heard about all the millions, and I said to myself; so I have such manner of a rich son and the roof over my house is leaking? I now survive by selling pigs.”
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    Evans’ stepbrother, Chidolie Onwuamadike who also spoke, said his brother’s ruin was caused by his mother, noting that if Evans had followed their father’s advice, he wouldn’t have become a criminal.

    “As brothers, we don’t even interact at all. I don’t have his number and my heart is pained because he is such a loving, nice guy from the little I know of him.”
    Evans’ mother, Etty Onwuamadike, while speaking, tearfully pleaded with the government to give her son a second chance:
    “Chukwudumeje was a nice boy when he lived with me.

    The only gift I gave him years back was the Holy Bible. I don’t want my son to die. I’m still convinced he will serve God.”

  • Police rescue kidnapped school proprietor, arrest kidnapper

    About three days after the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, signed into law the Anti-Kidnapping Bill, operatives of the anti-kidnapping unit of the Benue State Police Command on Friday stormed a kidnappers’ hideout in Ushongo Local Government Area of the state and rescued one kidnap victim unhurt.

    Parading the suspected kidnapper alongside other suspects at the Police Command headquarters in Makurdi, the state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Moses Yamu, said the victim, Mr. Ape, the proprietor of Excel Grace School Gboko, was abducted on Wednesday in Gboko, Gboko LGA of the State.

    He said the victim was rescued following a volunteered information to the command that five kidnappers were holding one victim for ransom in Ushongo.

    According to Yamu, one Isaac Atsor, 33, was arrested when the hideout was raided, while the four others escaped from the scene.

    He explained that while investigation and manhunt for the fleeing gang members was ongoing, preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect (Atsor), had just finished serving a jail term on March 22 and was released from prison custody in connection with similar act .

    According to the police spokesperson, the kidnap victim, Mr. Ape, has since been reunited with his family, while the suspect, Isaac Atsor, has confessed to committing the crime with four others who are now at large.

    “The CP is committed to eradicating kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism and all forms of crimes in Benue State,” Yamu added.

    In a related development, the PPRO said that on April 19, policemen on stop-and-search duty along Aliade-Otukpo road intercepted one Victor Ogbu, 25, suspected to be cultist and in possession of a locally fabricated Beretta pistol with four live ammunition.

    ”The suspect confessed to being a cultist and a student of University of Agriculture Makurdi,” Yamu said.

    According to him, the command had, on May 14 at about 2200hrs arrested four other suspects with fabricated dummy guns while carrying out nefarious activities at Ikyowe village in Katsina Ala, Katsina Ala LG area of the state.

    ASP Yamu said a notorious armed robbery gang had been terrorising innocent motorists along Katsina Ala- Zaki Biam road and dispossessing people of their valuables.

    He maintained that the robbers were arrested when operatives responded to a distress call that some robbers had blocked the road, robbing innocent citizen.

    He said they would all be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.