SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, (THEWILL) – Notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, alias Evans, on Sunday, led the police to two of the three camps where he kept his victims on Jakande Estate, Ejigbo, and the New Igando, both in Lagos State. One other, which could not be visited, is said to be sited in Gowon Estate, in Egbeda area of the state.
While the Ejigbo detention camp is located on Green Street, Jakande Estate, the other hideout is at 21 Prophet Asaye Close, New Igando. He stated that he kept five persons including Chief James Uduji and Francis Umeh at the Igando den.
The kidnapper explained that he rented the apartment in 2014 and that he kept Umeh for five months in that apartment before moving to the other house in Ejigbo after people in the neighbourhood started suspecting his activities.
The kidnap kingpin, who was recently arrested by the police for coordinating several high-profile kidnappings and armed robberies within Lagos, Anambra and Enugu States, also took detectives to a bungalow at Orisunmbare by hospital junction in Jakande estate, Lagos where he had another hideout.
The heavy presence of armed policemen who accompanied him to the hideout shocked residents of the area who expressed anger that such a thing was happening around them without their knowledge.
Evans told operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team that the Jakande Estate detention camp was rented in 2010.
According to him, “I have just three camps in Lagos where I kept some of the victims I kidnapped.
“One of them is this house on Jakande Estate; the others are in the New Igando and on Gowon Estate. I paid N750,000 per annum for this flat (Jakande) then.
“I don’t come to the camps, I have my boys on the ground and they give me information on a daily basis.
“One of the victims I kept here (Jakande) is one Udoji, who I collected $1m from. Another one, Emesbos, paid me $300,000, while one, whose name I can’t remember, paid $250,000.
“Whenever the pressure from the police is much, I usually move my victims to another camp.”
The house in New Igando has two different flats, which Evans said he rented for N1m per annum.
He said two victims – Chief Umeh the pharmacist, and Chief Donatus Duru – were held in the house before his arrest.
“We demanded €1m from Duru’s family, but they paid N100m and promised to bring the rest.
“When I collected the money, I told my boys to release the man; but they flouted my order. By then, policemen were after me,” he added.
He disclosed that he did not enjoy the money made from kidnapping because he was always on the move to avoid arrest by policemen.
“The vehicles I owned were a Toyotal Hilux and a Nissan pickup that I bought for N7m; Lexus GS460, which I bought for N22m; 2016 Range Rover, which cost me N55m, and Lexus GL47 that was bought for N9m,” he said.
Evans also stated that he contacted Colon Cancer while he was trafficking drugs, revealing that he used to swallow wraps of cocaine during which one of it got burst in his stomach.
Describing himself as a good family man, he said he normally leads his family in prayer because he knew he was a bad person who had done so many terrible things and he wanted God to forgive him through his children’s prayers.
‘’I know I have done terrible things but I want to be forgiven. I also want to advise other criminals to turn a new leaf. The Nigeria Police is not what it used to be. They are far more advanced than they were. If they could arrest me, there is no criminal they can’t arrest,” he said.
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