Justice Hakeem Oshodi of an Ikeja High Court has sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, and two others to life imprisonment for conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Duru.
Justice Oshodi found Evans and others guilty of a two-count charge of kidnapping the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Limited, Donatus Dunu.
Others sentenced to life inprisonment alongside Evans are Uche Amadi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu.
He concluded that the evidence tendered before the court, especially the video evidence collaborated the guilt of the convicts
Justice Oshodi however discharged and acquitted Ogechi Uchechukwu and two former soldiers of the Nigerian Army, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba for lack of sufficient evidence linking them to the crime.
Handing down the sentence, Justice Oshodi noted the allocutors of the defence counsels, Olarewaju Ajanaku, H.O. Ajibola that the convicts are first time offenders, are remorseful and learnt their lesson.
But the judge disagreed with the defence lawyers that the convicts have shown remorse.
