How Deadly Evans shot Young Shall Grow Motors Chairman, kills two others – WITNESS NARRATES

As the trial of the notorious suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans begins, police officer, Idowu Haruna narrated to a Special Offences Court how the Chairman of the Young Shall Grow Motors, Obianuju Vincent was shot.

Young Shall Grow Motors:  Haruna told the court that Evans and his gang members shot Vincent and killed two of his escorts.

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Haruna while being led in evidence by the state counsel, Adebayo Haroun, said the incident occurred on August 27, 2013 at Third Avenue, Festac Town.

He said,

“I recognise the defendants as those who attempted to kidnap the chairman of Young Shall Grow motors, Chief Obianuju Vincent,  sometime in 2013.

“The YSG chairman was returning from a game house along Festac Town when his convoy was attacked by heavily armed men led by Evans.

“During the attack, the YSG chairman was shot in the right arm while his driver, one Mr Peter Nweke,  was shot dead. One of his escorts, Chijoke Ngozi (female),  was also shot dead.

“During a gun duel between the chairman’s police escorts and the gang, three of the gang members were shot dead by Inspector Solomon Igwe, while the rest fled  the scene.

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“Two rifles belonging to the gang members were later recovered by the Festac Police Division, where the case was reported and the corpses were later removed by the police.

“Immediately the matter was assigned to my team, we arrested the 1st defendant (Evans), who narrated the entire operation to us. Evans told us that he was the leader and the one who led the gang to the operation. Evans mentioned the 3rd defendant (Arinze) as the informant of the operation.

“He told us that Arinze had monitored the movement of the YSG chairman for four days in order to give him detailed information about his routine.

“Evans also named the 2nd defendant (Emeka) as his syndicate in all criminal activities while the 4th defendant ( Upong) supplied him with the weapons and firearms.”

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“When the victim came to the station, Evans knelt before him and apologized for killing his two escorts. He told him that he was sorry for their deaths and that it was a mistake.

“Evans told the victim that he had no intention of killing anyone during the operation but only wanted to kidnap him and later demand for ransom.

“Evans begged that he was misinformed about the victim’s police escorts who were also armed.”

The presiding judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo,  adjourned the matter till January 6, 2019, for the continuation of trial.

Meanwhile, Evans countered the witness that he was tortured to sign many incriminating documents while two people were killed in his presence by the police.

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“When I refused to sign the document presented to me by Abba Kyari and co at the IGP house in Lagos, I was taken to the backyard where Idowu Haruna (a police officer) demonstrated in front of me by placing handkerchief inside the mouth of a man who had bullet wounds in his leg and was chained and handcuffed like the rest I met there.

“Sellotaped him from his neck to his head, covered him with a nylon bag and sellotaped it again, the man started shaking on the floor and then stopped. Idowu marched the wound on his legs and the man did not move. They did that to like four more persons.

“I was shaking and begging them that I will do anything they want me to do, I was taken back in and then signed documents, over 20, with some of them blank, after I stopped shaking from the experience.”

Evans also alleged that according to the date written on the particular statement being contested, he could not have written it in Lagos as he was still in Abuja.

“On August 12, 2017, I was in Abuja and have not been brought back to Lagos. They took me to Abuja on July 7, 2017 and brought me back around 20 something of August.”

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The defendant said he was also blocked from seeing his family and a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana. He said upon discovering his presence at the SARS office in Ikeja, he was locked in the toilet with two police officers.

“After a while, I heard them greet Falana and he was told they took me out for investigations meanwhile I was in the toilet in the office.

“I heard Falana warning them that whatever I did, they should charge me to a court. He said he does not want to hear that I had been shot dead while trying to escape and they said it would not happen.

“They refused to allow my parents see me and that is why my father sued them to the Federal High Court.”

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