The inspector-general of police intelligence response
team (IRT) has arrested a soldier in Lagos for
allegedly being part of the gang of Chukwudi
Onuwamadike, the billionaire kidnapper better known
as Evans.
Quoting a police source, NAN said the team led by an
assistant commissioner of police, Abba Kyari, arrested
the soldier after weeks of surveillance.
The source reportedly said the soldier, a lance
corporal, was arrested in the Ojo area of Lagos around
9pm on Friday.
The source said a confession made by Evans led to
the arrest of the soldier who was a member of the
army band at Abalti Barrack, Surulere.
The kidnap kingpin was said to have told police
officers during interrogation that some notable people
collaborated with him in his operations for seven
years.
The source said the soldier in his confessional
statement, said he had accompanied Evans in three
different kidnap operations in Lagos, and got N2
million, N1.5 million and N3 million respectively as his
shares.
“There are serious efforts to apprehend other gang
members and efforts will be made to arrest others,”
the source said.
The billionaire kidnapper was arrested at his mansion
in Magodo estate, Lagos, on June 10.
While parading Evans, Moshood Jimoh, spokesman of
the Nigeria police force, had promised that everyone
mentioned by the gang members would be arrested, no
matter how highly-placed.
TheCable
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