Police authority in Lagos has said that the force is being pressurized to release billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike alias Evans.
Evans was arrested penultimate Saturday from his mansion at Magodo Estate, Lagos for multiple kidnappings.
A reward of N30 million was placed by the force for any useful information that could lead to his arrest.
The notorious kidnapper has been on the police wanted list for over seven years.
Acting Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Galadanshi Dasuki, while addressing news men on Saturday at the Command Headquarters, Ikeja, said that the Police was not in a hurry to release Evans, in spite of calls from different quarters to do so.
He said: “Evans has been a kidnapper for a long time and has been on the wanted list of the Police in Anambra, Abuja, Enugu, Edo and Lagos states. He also has a criminal gang, some of whom have been arrested in Enugu and Lagos. But there are still more out there. Therefore, this needs a painstaking investigation
”Besides, we need to understudy him as well as debrief him. By so doing, we intend to use his tactics to get others. He will eventually be charged to court after investigation is concluded.” Daily Trust reported.
It would be recalled that Evans had threatened to “kill” the police and personally get his lawyers to make public the list of his accomplices in the crimes which he made available to the police but that the nation’s foremost security agency failed to pick them up whereas, according to him, he is not the only one in it.
It is therefore not clear why the statement of being under pressure to release the arrested self-confessed notorious kidnap kinpin should be the next coming from the police after the Evans’ threat.
“One is beginning to fear if criminals will ever cease to continue in crimes with the foot-dragging being experienced currently in the matter,” a respondent said Saturday night.
