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BREAKING: Ikeja Court Sentences Kidnapper Evans To 21-Year Imprisonment

The judge held that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to other aspiring kidnappers.

Ikeja Court has sentenced Kidnapper Evans to 21-year imprisonment for kidnapping.

 

Newsonline reports that Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, and his co-defendant, Victor Aduba, to 21 years imprisonment for kidnapping one Sylvanus Hafia.

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They were accused of conspiring and kidnapping Sylvanus Ahanonu Hafia at about 5:30 pm on June 23, 2014, at Kara Street, Amuwo Odofin in Lagos and were alleged to have captured and detained Hafia and demanded a ransom of $2m.

 

But they pleaded not guilty to the four charges.

The judge held that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to other aspiring kidnappers.

More details shortly…

NewsOnline Nigeria

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