Funny things I did to arrest Evans, kidnap kingpin – Kyari, IRT boss
.Says I took okada to Magodo GRA to stop his escape
The Head of the Intelligence Response Team, Assistant Commissioner of
Police Abba
Kyari, has disclosed that he had to take a ride on a commercial
motorcycle, popularly known as okada, to enable him move faster to the Magodo
GRA Phase II residence of notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudi Onuamadike, aka
Evans, to effect his arrest.
Kyari told our correspondent on the phone that to avoid any delay due
to the usual chaotic traffic situation on Lagos roads, he had to quickly jump
on a commercial motorcycle from his Ikeja GRA location to Magodo GRA Phase II
to arrest Evans, who he had earlier been informed by his men already deployed
in the area, was making frantic preparations to leave his mansion very soon.
He added that in the early hours of Sunday, “At about 1.30am, Evans and
some of his gang members went out to a club around Ikeja and returned at
5.10am. So, we were very sure Sunday would be our day. So, I decided to go and
cleanup myself and have a little rest before I returned to Magodo. I was still
resting when my guys called that the target was set; that it appeared he wanted
to go out. So, I had to take Okada from where I was, to meet up.
“You won’t believe this, but it’s the truth. Do you know that when my
surveillance team alerted me of the suspect’s presence at his Magodo mansion, I
had no other option than to take Okada from where I was at Ikeja GRA to
Magodo?”
I INSTRUCTED MY GUYS TO GIVE HIM WARNING SHOTS; THAT WAS TO ANNOUNCE
OUR PRESENCE, AND THAT KEPT HIM INDOORS UNTIL I GOT THERE AND DIRECTED THE
AFFAIRS
Kyari said though it might sound funny, policemen sometimes must do
“unconventional things” to get at their targets or what they actually wanted.
“I was approaching former tollgate, when I got another call that he
might drive out any moment. So, I instructed my guys to give him warning shots;
that was to announce our presence, and that kept him indoors until I got there
and directed the affairs,” he said.
The IRT boss stated that he and his team had been on Evans’ trail for
close to 10 years until the kidnap kingpin met his waterloo last Sunday.
“We have been following him, through intelligence gathering and
surveillance, but we have always lost him. He is a very intelligent criminal
with a very sound IQ, I must tell you,” he said.
Kyari further disclosed that he and his team mounted a surveillance on
Evans five days before last Sunday, when he was finally arrested.
“When we tracked him to Lagos, I was in Abuja. The moment I was sure he
was in Lagos, we moved down to Lagos on Monday of that week. We came by road
and slept at a police station close to Evans’ residence and started our
surveillance on him,” he said.
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