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BILLIONAIRE KIDNAPPER, EVANS GETS JUDGEMENT DATE

 Court fixes judgement day for alleged billionaire kidnapper Evans

Court fixes judgement day for alleged billionaire kidnapper Evans

Evans and other suspects 

An Ikeja High Court has reserved judgment for Feb. 25, 2022, in the case of alleged billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans), and five others charged with conspiracy and kidnapping.

Evans co-defendants are Uche Amadi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba.

The defendants are accused of kidnapping Mr. Donatus Dunu, the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Ltd. on Feb. 14, 2017.

Contrary to false viral online reports, this is the first judgment to be fixed in any of the five kidnapping cases currently involving Evans in the high courts of Lagos State.

Evans is facing trial alongside diverse co-defendants before Justices Hakeem Oshodi of an Ikeja High Court, Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, and Adedayo Akintoye of an Igbosere High Court.

On Friday, Oshodi gave the judgment date after oral submissions of final written addresses by prosecution and defence counsel.

Evans’s counsel, Mr Victor Opara (SAN), while making his oral submission, asked the court to discharge and acquit Evans of the two-count charge before it.

In a final written address dated Nov. 1, Opara had said there was no direct evidence linking Evans to the alleged crimes.

He told the court that Dunu, the alleged kidnap victim, said to be blindfolded throughout his 88-day ordeal, did not state to the court in his testimony, that he could physically identify Evans.

“There is also the fatality of the prosecution’s case that there was no identification parade to identify the first defendant (Evans).

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