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Court convicts kidnap kingpin Evans, 2 others

Justice Hakeem Oshodi of an Ikeja high court has convicted kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike a. k. a. Evans, and two others for conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Dùru.

Justice Oshodi found Evans and others guilty of a two-count charge of kidnapping the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Limited, Donatus Dunu.

Others convicted alongside Evans are Uche Amadi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu.

The judge held that the prosecution had succeeded in proving the charge against the three convicts beyond a reasonable doubt.

He concluded that the evidence tendered before the court especially the videos evidence collaborated the guilty of the convicts

Justice Oshodi however discharged and acquitted Ogechi Uchechukw and two former soldiers Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba for lack of sufficient evidence linking them to the crime.

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