The Lagos High Court in Ikeja has sentenced kidnap kingpin Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans and two others, Uchenna Amadi and Okuchuwkwu Nwachukwu, to life imprisonment.
Justice Hakeem Oshodi handed out the sentence to the trio on Friday
after convicting them on two counts of conspiracy and kidnapping of a
businessman.
In convicting the trio, Justice Oshodi held that the prosecution had
successfully proved the charge against them beyond a reasonable doubt.
The court however discharged and acquitted Ogechi Uchechukwu and
two former soldiers of the Nigerian Army, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor
Aduba, for lack of sufficient evidence linking them to the crime.
The Lagos State government had arraigned Evans alongside Uche
Amadi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Chilaka
Ifeanyi, and Victor Aduba for allegedly kidnapping the Managing
Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Limited, Donatus Dunu, on
February 14, 2017.
The prosecution told the court that on April 12, Evans alongside the
other five defendants while armed with guns and other weapons
captured, detained and collected a ransom of 223,000 euros from
Donatus for his release.
