In a recent development to the ongoing revelations on the billionaire kidnapper kingpin, Evans, a police report has indicated that Evans had been arrested for robbery as far back as 2006 but was later freed due to intervention by Imo state police.
Sharing the encounter with The PUNCH newspaper, was a senior police officer who said Evans had initially been arrested after his gang killed themselves over a loot from a recent robbery.
“There was a time in 2006 that a gang of robbers attacked a commercial bank in Lagos and went somewhere around the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, to share the loot. While sharing the loot, the robbers had a disagreement and shot one another.”
“Seven members of the gang died instantly. The then Divisional Police Officer of Iponri Police Station, Yahaya Bello, now a deputy commissioner of police, said there was a serious incident involving some persons who shot at one another. He said about three of them had been arrested.”
He added, “One of the members of the gang arrested then was Chukwudi Onuamadike, popularly known as Evans. If you look at his chest, I cannot remember whether it is the right or left side, there is a scar. It was as a result of the gunshot from his gang members that day. He bled and there was no way he could run away before the police came.”
The senior police man also added that after his arrest, he was transferred to the Lagos state anti-robbery squad and were about to incarcerate him when a Suoerintendent in the Lagos Police College, intervened and got him transferred to Imo state where he was released.
“The case was transferred to the Lagos State Anti-Robbery Squad. We investigated and discovered that they were armed robbers. Evans led the team. We also went to Mbidi Police Station, Imo State, to carry out an investigation on them. We were able to arrest two other members of the gang. We then had five of them in police custody.”
“There was a policewoman at the Band Section of the Police College, Lagos. She was known as Tina, a Superintendent of Police. She insisted that we should drop the case and that Onuamadike (Evans) was her brother.”
“But when she was unable to achieve her aim, she travelled to Imo State. Not long after, we got a message from the Imo State Police Command that they had been searching for Evans and asked us to transfer the case to them so they could continue from where we stopped.”
“Since that time, we did not hear anything. We heard he was later released there.”