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<\/p>\nA witness, Izuchukwu Ezeuko, told the court that he first travelled to the Southeast to deliver $800,000 in a bid to free his boss.<\/p>\n
After his boss was freed, he was forced to pay additional $200,000, the witness said.<\/p>\n
Ezeuko, who testified in the trial of Onwuamadike for two separate kidnapping charges, said he was given instructions by an unknown voice on where to drop the money.<\/p>\n
His co-accused in the first charge are: Joseph Emeka, Ugochukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba, while those charged with him in the second are: Emeka, Linus Okpara and Aduba.<\/p>\n
Ezeuko said he was a manager in a factory belonging to Mr James Uduji, who was abducted on September 7, 2015.<\/p>\n
The witness said he got a call at 5 p.m on that fateful day that his employer, who was at the factory at Agbara in Ogun State, had been abducted on his way home.<\/p>\n
He said he got a call on October 10, 2015 from a private number and was asked to speak with his boss.<\/p>\n
Ezeuko said: \u201cMy boss then spoke to me and said if I wanted him alive, I should go to the Southeast to deliver the money to suspected kidnappers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to FESTAC and met Mr Edwin Uduji, the victim\u2019s brother, who arranged the first $800,000 for me to travel with.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn October 11, I drove to the East with the victim\u2019s elder sister. In the East, a voice gave us instructions on how to drop the money.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to him, they were made to drive round Anambra State: from Awka, the state capital, to Ozubulu as well as Ekwuluobia and the environs, and were asked to stop at Oba.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was at Oba the voice asked the victim\u2019s sister to come down from the vehicle with the money.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe voice directed her to an uncompleted building where she dropped the money. It was dark so we did not see who picked the money,\u201d Ezeuko said.<\/p>\n
He said two weeks after the $800,000 ransom was dropped, the abductors freed his boss.<\/p>\n
Ezeuko, the fifth witness in the trial, said he agreed to travel from Lagos to the East to drop the ransom to aid the freedom of his boss.<\/p>\n
He said towards the end of October, his boss asked him to take another $200,000 to the abductors because they were still threatening his life.<\/p>\n
Ezeuko said he again travelled to the East and was instructed to drop the cash on the Onitsha expressway.<\/p>\n
During cross-examination by Evans lawyer Mr Olarewaju Ajanaku, the witness said he did not inform the police about the ransom before paying.<\/p>\n
He said he also did not obtain the call logs or give them to the police to identify who called or gave him instructions.<\/p>\n
Justice Adedayo Akintoye adjourned further hearing till October<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Thursday heard how multi-millionaire kidnapper Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (aka Evans) allegedly directed an employee of a kidnap victim abducted in Lagos to deliver $1 million ransom in two instalments in the Southeast. A witness, Izuchukwu Ezeuko, told the court that he first travelled to the Southeast to deliver $800,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[5713],"class_list":["post-49332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-evans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}