“But I ran into Evans’ friend in Port Harcourt, Barrister. He was the one who reintroduced me to Evans. In the course of our discussions, Evans said he has lost all the arms he purchased from Peter, my former Master. He gave N3m to get new guns for him. In the course of our telephone communications, police tracked me down to Port Harcourt and arrested me.”
A 42-year-old ex-militant from Bayelsa State, Suoyo Paul, said he met Evans in 2008 when he was in the camp as a militant.
He said his boss, Peter, gave Evans two rifles, adding that when he embraced the Amnesty offer of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, he lost contacts with Evans.
“But I ran into Evans’ friend in Port Harcourt, Barrister. He was the one who reintroduced me to Evans. In the course of our discussions, Evans said he has lost all the arms he purchased from Peter, my former Master. He gave N3m to get new guns for him. In the course of our telephone communications, police tracked me down to Port Harcourt and arrested me.”
According to the Police Spokesman, five AK47, an AK 49 rifles, two double barrel long guns, two English pistols, 59 AK47 Magazines with ammunition, 1,272 9mm live AK47 ammunition and five number plates were recovered from the gang in the joint operation carried out by the Inspector General of Police’ (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the Lagos Police Command and Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU).
“In every kidnap attack, he has a separate armed group that take victims with him and has another armed group, who takes over the victims to their hideouts and prevent them from escaping. The members of the two groups do not know themselves. They comply with his instructions.
“This is a huge success for Nigeria Police. The force would build on this success and continue to prevent kidnap cases and criminality in the country. He has two mansions in Magodo GRA Phase II worth about N300million. He has two houses in highbrow area of Accra, Ghana, among many other properties such as exotic cars, expensive watches, jewelries.”
