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Folake Sokoya
A serving soldier in the Nigeria Army has been arrested for allegedly being part of the gang of the notorious kidnapper Chukwudi Dumeme Onuwamadike alias Evans in Lagos.
The soldier who is identified as Victor Chukwunonso, a Lance Corporal was arrested by the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, after weeks of painstaking surveillance on him.
The billionaire kidnapper, who was arrested after being hunted by the police for seven years on Saturday June 10, about 1pm at his Magodo Lagos estate mansion had told policemen during investigation some of the notable people that joined him in his operation in the past seven years.
The police detectives in a follow up to the confessions made by Evans led to the arrest of the Lance Corporal soldier who is a member of the army band at the Abalty Barracks, Surulere, Lagos.
The soldier who is an indigene of Onitsha, Anambra State was arrested on Friday 23rd June around 9.00pm in Ojo area of Lagos State.
The suspected soldier in his confessional statement made to the police said he had followed Evans in three different kidnapping operations in Lagos, and got N2million, N1.5million and N3million respectively as his share.
It was gathered that there are serious efforts to apprehend other gang members as no stone would be left unturned in the arrest of others.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner of Police Lagos State, DCP in charge of Administration, Dansuki Galadanchi denied a report that the command released one Emeka who sold his boss to Evans and his gang members.
Galadanchi explained that after Emeka’s boss, Chief Donatus Duru escaped from the kidnappers’ detention camp at Igando, Lagos, Emeka was arrested and charged to Ebute-Meta Magistrate Court 2 and remanded in prison afterwards.
“It came as a surprise to the police, when a television station reported that the suspect escaped from the police custody.
“Emeka was never in our custody, we charged him to court immediately we arrested him, how come they now said we allowed him to escape from our custody, that is not true,” the DCP said.
