Alleged billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudimeme ‘Evans’ Onwuamadike has denied being a kidnapper, claiming that he is an ornaments and Horlicks dealer.
Recall that Onwuamadike is standing
trial alongside Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi, Okwuchukwu
Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba over the alleged kidnap of Donatus Dunu, chief
executive officer of Maydon Pharmaceutical Ltd and collection of £223,000 (N100
million) as ransom from his family.
All the defendants who were first
arraigned on August 30, 2017, on two counts of conspiracy and kidnapping, have
maintained their innocence.
After being led in by his defense
counsel Victor Okpara on Tuesday August 3, Evans denied all allegations of
kidnapping levelled against him by the Lagos State Government, insisting he was
a legitimate businessman.
Claiming that he was coerced into
admitting being a kidnapper after the police in a bid to make him confess,
extra-judicially killed four individuals in his presence, the alleged kidnapper
also denied having "Evans" as his nickname.
He said;
“I live at Fred Shoboyede Street, Magodo Phase II, Lagos. I am a businessman and I deal in ornaments and Horlicks.
"My lord, my name is not Evans and
I don’t have a nickname.”
Ifeanyi and Aduba, two former soldiers of the Nigerian Army who also testified on Tuesday, denied being accomplices to the crime.
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