An Igbosere High Court Lagos on Wednesday heard
suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known
as Evans, made his confessional statement to the police under duress.
Evans told Justice Adedayo Akintoye that he
signed papers given to him by the police so as not to be tortured to death.
He claimed members of the Inspector-General of
Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT), which arrested him in 2017,
intimidated him by executing suspected criminals in his presence, before assaulting
him.
Evans is facing two separate charges, bordering
on conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping and attempted murder, before Justice
Akintoye.
In the first charge, he is standing trial
alongside Joseph Emeka, Ugochukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba.
In the second charge, he is joined on trial
with Joseph Emeka, Linus Okpara and Victor Aduba.
At the resumption of his trial on Thursday,
Evans alleged the IGP IRT tortured suspects to death by suffocating them with
plastic bags and threatened to do same to him if he failed to cooperate with
them.
He claimed that some sheets of papers were
brought for him to sign, adding some of the papers were blank while others had
written content.
Evans said: “When I asked what I was to sign
the police officers slapped my head and even quenched a cigarette on my hand.
“The officers were beating me and told me that
if anything happened to me, no one would know. They hit my head and blood was
gushing, the scars are still on my head.
“When I saw how five men who were paraded with
me were tortured and killed, I agreed to sign the papers with fear of what
happened to the other men.”
He also said that the contents of the papers he
signed were not read to him and there was no video recording during the
statement taking process.
He testified during a trial within a trial
conducted to ascertain whether his statement admissible or not.
He was led in evidence by his counsel, Mr O. I.
Ajanaku.
The defendant was afterwards cross-examined by
Lagos State counsel, Dr Jide Martins.
Justice Akintoye adjourned further hearing till
January 30.
- The Nation
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