BREAKING: Evans Disappears From Police Custody
After weeks
of public furore and media frenzy, a sudden blackout has descended on
the case of Chukwuduneme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, Nigeria’s infamous
billionaire kidnapper, thus fuelling speculations that he’s escaped, or
dead.
Saturday Sun has however gathered that
Evans is not dead as his family now fears but has been moved from the
Lagos police command headquarters cell by about 30 heavily armed men at
midnight few days ago to an undisclosed destination. Some senior police
officers in the know told Saturday Sun he was moved to Abuja
Indeed, in the last few days, a palpable
silence seemed to have enshrouded the Evans phenomenon. Where is Evans?
It is a question the police is not prepared to officially answer right
now. A man who hitherto divulged the details of his criminal life to the
public almost on a daily basis is suddenly no longer accessible to even
the press corps.
All a Saturday Sun reporter who visited
the state police command was told was that Evans is no longer allowed to
talk to the press till further notice. The secrecy surrounding his
whereabouts in the official quarters baffles those who have closely
followed his story since his arrest.
After days of sniffing around the Lagos
police formations to get information on Evans whereabouts, it was
gathered that the kidnap kingpin had been moved out of the Lagos command
headquarters days ago by heavily armed policemen and is yet to be
returned.
Police had last week said they had got a
court order to detain him for three months to give them enough time to
complete their investigation. This followed two suits filed by Evans
lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, at the High Court seeking his release and claiming N300m damages from the police.
Some senior police officers who spoke to
Saturday Sun on condition of anonymity expressed fears that Evans might
not make it to the court. They argued that he might plot his escape from
prison, or get across to some of his members who are still on the run.
Their concerns are not farfetched, given that several inmates in the
past had reportedly committed much heinous crimes even while in prison.
Some of the officers confirmed that Evans
was no longer in the police cell in Lagos.
“He has not been returned
since he was moved out. Evans is a broken man; police can’t resort to
extra-judicial killings at this point. He is cooperating, and he is
ready to help return all his ill-gotten wealth as soon as possible”, one
of the officers said.
Another reliable source at the police
command told Saturday Sun “Evans is not an ordinary criminal. I guess
that they took him out for further investigation but I don’t know why
they are yet to return him to his cell.” The source further assured: “No
one is planning to kill Evans. I believe that they will return him
later. He could be in any good cell in the state for security reasons,
but I can assure you that he is not dead yet. Even if anything happens
to him, if he dies in custody, it will be as a result of cancer which he
claims he is suffering from.”
Source: Sun
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