Billionaire kidnapper: Police source reveals yet another critical secret of Evans
- sodeeq
- Jun 25, 2017
- 2 min read
- The Billionaire-Kidnapper, Chukwudi Onuamadike aka Evans, was once arrested in Lagos state
- A Senior police officer who arrested the kingpin and his gang in 2006, reveals that a rift borne out of greed led to Evans' arrest in Imo
- According to the officer, Evans and his gang fell out as they were sharing the loot from a robbery attack
A senior police officer whose name has been concealed to protect him from prosecution, has said that Evans was arrested in Imo state, but regained freedom afterwards.
He told newsmen that Evans was arrested in 2006, after his gang of robbers attacked a commercial bank in Lagos.
According to the source which spoke to The Punch, the robbers went somewhere around the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, to share the loot.
While sharing the loot, the robbers had a disagreement and shot one another.
Seven members of the gang died instantly. The then Divisional Police Officer of Iponri Police Station, Yahaya Bello, now a deputy commissioner of police, was in the know of the incident, the sources claimed.
According to the Senior officer, it was confirmed that one of the members of the gang arrested then was Chukwudi Onuamadike, popularly known as Evans.
"If you look at his chest, I cannot remember whether it is the right or left side, there is a scar.
It was as a result of the gunshot from his gang members that day.
He bled and there was no way he could run away before the police came.
The case was transferred to the Lagos State Anti-Robbery Squad.
We investigated and discovered that they were armed robbers.
Evans led the team. We also went to Mbidi Police Station, Imo state, to carry out an investigation on them.
We were able to arrest two other members of the gang. We then had five of them in police custody" the source informed.
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