Nigeria Police have debunked rumours making round that the millionaire kidnapper, Chukwudi Onuamadike, a.k.a Evans has escaped from police custody.
A statement by Police spokesman, CSP JIMOH MOSHOOD says, “Evans is intact in Police Custody, investigation into all the crimes he has committed which include several kidnappings; armed robbery and murder are ongoing.
According to the statement, Police have made significant progress in the investigations of these crimes.
“The public should disregard and discountenance all media reports in the social and print media that he has vanished or released and all criminal charges against him dropped as UNTRUE and ABSOLUTE FALSEHOOD,” The statement says.
The Spokesman says, on completion of investigations, Evans and other members of his gang would be arraigned in court.
Evans, was arrested in 2006 for armed robbery where seven members of his gang died during sharing of their loot in Lagos State.
The story says after robbing a bank the gang went to a hideout to share the loot, but a disagreement ensured, leading members of the gang to start shooting at each other, leading to the death of seven members.
Evans has co-ordinated bank robberies in southern Nigeria including Oyo, Port Harcourt and Abia, as well as numerous high-profile abductions where ransoms collected amounted to hundreds of millions of naira.
Less than a month before to his arrest, in June, the police had announced a thirty-million-naira bounty in return for information leading to his arrest.
