Suspected kidnap kingpin Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike,
popularly known as Evans says his confessional statement after his arrest last
year (2017), was given under duress.
At the resumed hearing of his case on Friday, he
told an Ikeja High Court, presided over by Justice Hakeem Oshodi that he was
tortured before writing the statement.
He also gave details of how members of Inspector
General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team and the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad (SARS), allegedly tortured and killed several others in his presence.
He claimed that the security agents killed the
victims by suffocating them with plastic bags and threatened to do same to him
if he failed to cooperate with them.
According to him, after witnessing the
execution, some sheets of paper were brought for him to sign by the police.
“After a few minutes they brought 25 sheets of
paper for me and I signed them.
“Some things were written on some of the sheets
of paper while some were blank, that was how I was forced to sign the
confessional statements,” he said.
Evans is standing trial alongside five other
persons, Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu
and Victor Aduba, on two counts bordering on conspiracy and kidnapping.
The case was, however, adjourned till November
23
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