For Billionaire Kidnapper Evans It Is Finished; Check Out The Final Onslaught Likely To Send Him To Early Grave This Week

A series of revelations detailing the habitual escape of kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, after several arrests until the police finally captured him in June brings to the fore Nigeria’s higgledy-piggledy justice system.
Popularly known as Evans, the notorious kidnapper had bribed and manipulated his way to freedom following his arrest in 2006. He had also used his connections to secure freedom from the court earlier this year before the long arm of the law c@ught up with him. To correct the sham, we need a root-and-branch reform of the police, the prisons and the legal system.
Evans, whose escapades are still generating spine-tingling tremors, having kidnapped and ransomed a long list of wealthy Nigerians and trafficked drugs, was initially arrested by the police in 2006.
That was shortly after his gang robbed a bank in Lagos. The sharing of the loot spawned a commotion in which a gang member shot Evans, according to the testimony of the then Iponri Police Station divisional officer.
Through subterfuge, the Lagos Police Command was arm-twisted
Vampire, who was being arraigned for murder and kidnapping that Friday morning, was violently rescued by his gun-toting confederates. In the mêlée, they shot five prison officials and freed scores of other suspects brought to court for trial. Two people reportedly died in the attack.
This banditry could not have succeeded without the active connivance of sly prison officials. Evidence of officers’ complicity was found in the police raid following Vampire’s escape, which netted 264 cell phones smuggled into the penitentiary through crooked Nigerian Prisons Service personnel.
Another inmate was reportedly masterminding kidnapping operations on the major expressways in the South-East with the aid of mobile telephony in the same prison. It is shocking that the NPS has not stamped out this trend.
In March, Ibrahim Balogun, alias Small-Jpron, mysteriously disappeared from his cell after he was remanded in prison by an Ebute-Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Charged with murder, he had deployed his connections in the police and the judiciary to escape.
Fatai Owoseni, the Lagos Commissioner of Police, said, “The circumstances surrounding his escape are being investigated. We are also investigating the complicity of two of our officials in ensuring his escape from the prison.” This speaks volumes about the widespread criminal collusion in the justice system.