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‘I have no hand in it’… Evans disowns lawyer, father over anti-police suit

 

Suspected billionaire kidnapper Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, says he has no hand in the recent lawsuits filed on his behalf against the police.

Evans told Channels Television on Sunday from police detention that the lawsuits were attempts by some people to put him in more trouble.

“I have no hand in any case filed against the police and I did not speak with any lawyer or my father to fill a case on my behalf. All I will say is that they should temper justice with mercy,” he said.

The suspect noted further that even if he was released by the police, he would not go because his victims, whom he has kidnapped and collected millions of naira as ransom from, would kill him.




     

     

    In a motion ex parte filed before the Federal High Court Lagos on Wednesday, Evans allegedly gave constitutional infraction perpetrated against him as he ought to have been charged or arraigned before the court.

    He listed the Inspector General of Police, the Nigeria Police Force, the Commissioner of Police in Lagos, and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos Command as the respondents in the suit.

    And in just 24 hours after the suit, Evans filed a fresh one in which he claimed the sum of N300million as general and exemplary damages against the police for alleged illegal detention and unconstitutional media trial.

    The Federal High High Court in Lagos on Friday dismissed the suit filed by Olukoya Ogungbeje, the said lawyer.

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