How I joined Evans’ gang

Chukwuemeka Ikenna Bosah, a member of the dreaded billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudubem Onuamadike, a.k.a. Evans, has confessed to the police how he joined the dreaded gang.

The 32-year-old Chukwuemeka said he joined the gang of the notorious kidnapper to enable him foot the bill for a cesarean operation his wife underwent.

Explaining his involvement with the gang, Bosah said: “I use to manage a restaurant in Ogun state. I later travelled to Ghana to engage in 419 (obtaining by false pretence.)

“Luck smiled on me one day and I hit $43,000. I rented a shop for my wife and also rented a house where I lived with my family, which included two sets of twins. I also opened a bigger restaurant than the one I ran in Nigeria.

“I was doing well until six months later when the owner of the building where I resided gave me a quit notice, claiming that I paid the rent to the wrong person. The matter affected my business so badly that I decided to relocate to Nigeria.

“When I returned to Nigeria, I started doing internet fraud to survive. I told a white woman who was desperate to marry a black man that I would marry her, and she started taking care of me. She was sending me a lot of money until some enemies of progress called her and told her that I was married with a set of twins. She cut off the relationship.

“Unfortunately for me, I was penniless at the time she cut off the relationship. The worst happened when my pregnant wife went for antenatal care and the doctor told her that the only safe way she could be delivered of the baby was through cesarean operation because the baby was inside the Fallopian tube.

“When I narrated my plight to my friend, Nwosu, he told me that there was a friend of his who had just returned from abroad. He assured me that he would talk to the man to help me with money for the operation my wife intended to undergo. That was at Cele Bus Stop (Lagos).

“We entered keke (commercial tricycle) to Jakande Estate. There we met Evans who came in a Lexus SUV. This was around 2015.

“Evans told us to enter his car and I saw some men with fez caps. I also saw one of them in the back seat give a gun to another one in the front seat with Evans.

“Before I knew it, the driver used the Lexus SUV to block a car and they ordered the big man in the car to come down at gun point. When the man came out, he fainted. Evans then ordered Nwosu and me to carry the big man and put him inside his (Evans’ vehicle) and they zoomed off.

“While we were putting the man inside Evans’ vehicle, Nwosu stole his gold ring. He later gave it to me to sell in order to solve my wife’s problem. I sold the ring for N60, 000 and used the money to settle the bill for the cesarean operation.

“When Evans discovered that we stole the victim’s ring, he became angry with me. He gave Nwosu the sum of N1.5 million to give to me as my share of the ransom, but Nwosu deducted N50, 000 from it.”