*Intelligence cooperation led to arrest of Evans – IGP
*Evans keeps his money in GTB, wife exposes hobby
As investigations continue with a view to further unravel more about notorious kidnapper, Chikwuduben Onwuamadike alias Evans, the Nigerian Police intelligence reveals that the Nnewi, Anambra State-born obtained his Ghanaian passport with a fake name.
According to a document from the Nigeria Police Force, it was gathered, Onwuamadike was issued a Ghanaian passport on January 10, 2013 with a Ghanaian name, Asare Nelson.
The Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris at the meeting of West African Police Chiefs in Accra, Ghanaian capital, on Tuesday had revealed that the notorious kidnapper had a Ghanaian passport and cautioned the Ghanaian authorities to tighten modalities for the issuance of passports.
“Nigerians are celebrating the arrest of the Ghanaian-Nigerian. Ghanaian because he has a Ghanaian passport something you guys have to look at,” he advised.
The Nigerian Police report further indicated that Evans relocated his wife and five children to Ghana, because of his kind of business.
Onwuamadike owns two houses in Accra. One of them, a duplex located at Spintex, an Accra metropolis, is where his wife, Mrs Uchenna Precious Onwuamadike lives with their children.
…Intelligence cooperation led to arrest of Evans – IGP
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has attributed the arrest of Chukwujeme Onwamadike, the suspected kidnapper popularly known as Evans, to information sharing and intelligence cooperation among police services in West Africa.
“Information sharing is crucial to tackling the menace of trans-border crimes in West Africa; it is through such exchange that we were able to nab a Ghanaian/Nigerian kidnapper two weeks ago, after evading arrest for many years,” Idris said on Wednesday.
Idris spoke in Accra, Ghana in a paper titled: “The role of Nigeria Police in national security and its contributions in West Africa”, delivered at an ongoing West Africa international security conference.
“For several years, Evans terrorised Nigerians and nationals of many countries across West Africa. Efforts to apprehend him did not yield the desired results until we spread our search net wider,” he said.
The police chief, who solicited closer ties among security agencies in the sub-region, emphasised the need to improve the method of monitoring and surveillance, particularly among border and coastal police units.
Idris called for improved communication capabilities among intelligence gathering outfits in West Africa, and called for mutual support to plug loopholes usually exploited by criminals.
He said that the Nigeria Police Force had 300,000 personnel in 127 area commands and 5303 divisions, adding that the force had consistently contributed to stability and peace in ECOWAS nations and under UN mandates.
“The Nigeria Police Force trained 250 Liberian Police personnel in 2005 and has consistently offered training slots to police officers from Gambia and Sierra Leone at the Police Staff College, Jos and the Police Academy, Wudil.
“We also trained 100 police officers from the Republic of Niger on mobile police combat in 1998. At the end of the training, Nigeria donated trucks, riot equipment and tear smoke to the Nigerien government,” he said.
Idris said that the Nigeria Police Force also helped to stabilise Guinea Bissau in 2012, when the military intervened in its leadership and truncated democracy.
“Our police personnel remained there until democracy was restored in 2014,” he stated.
The IGP expressed Nigeria’s readiness to consistently cooperate with police formations in other countries to track down criminals, pointing out that such mutual cooperation had become even more necessary as technology had reduced the world to a small village.
…Evans keeps his money in GTB, wife exposes billionaire kidnapper
Uchenna Precious Onwuamadike, wife of arrested billionaire kidnapper, Chukwuduben Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, has revealed the bank he used to hide his ill-gotten money.
In an interview with the media, Uchenna disclosed that her husband kept his money in Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), adding that officials of the bank frequented their house to transact business with Evans.
Hear her: “I have not been receiving money from him, I have never seen his money.
“The only thing I know is that there was a time he bought an expensive watch in Dubai and I wanted to know why he bought it when he could not open any business for me.
“I have never seen him as a rich man. While with him, we made sure we had all we wanted to eat and that’s all. I can’t remember seeing any sign of affluence in him.
“In fact, I have never suspected him as a criminal. If I have been seeing any strange things, I would have suspected him. We have three cars, one Hilux, one grand Cherokee and an SUV.
“I know he banks with GTB only. Their staff used to visit us in the house.”
