Evans' Wife's Brother Speaks: "She Hasn't Visited Home Since She Got Married"

AWKA—THE elder brother of Mrs. Uchenna
Precious Onwuamadike, wife of the dreaded
kidnap kingpin, Mr. Chidumeme Onwuamadike,
a.k.a Evans, Mr.
Chukwuemeka Okoye said yesterday that his
sister has not visited her village at Awo Oraifite in
Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra
State since she got married in 2006.
He told Vanguard yesterday that even when their
father died in 2014, Uchenna, who is the last of
13 children of the Okoyes, and her husband,
Evans, did not attend the burial
He said that he has not been communicating with
his sister even on telephone, adding that he does
not even know that she is married with five
children.
When shown the photograph of his sister and her
five children, Chukwuemeka, a farmer and a daily
paid job man at Oraifite market said he would not
be able to identify his brother in-law, Evans, if
they meet.
He said: “Our father was very sick when Uchenna
got married and he was bedridden for eight years
before he died in 2014. It was her father in-law
that came for the burial. Once she got married,
nobody heard from her again and sometimes we
heard that she was living abroad.
“My elder brother who is living abroad once told
me that he communicated with her and there was
no way I could know their present predicament
because I do not watch television, neither do I
have a mobile phone that can be used for
browsing.”
He said that despite the poverty in his family,
Uchenna and her husband never cared and said
that he had not even heard that his sister’s
husband was a kidnapper.
Their aged mother, who is said to be diabetic, is
presently staying with one of his brothers in the
North and has been away for over one year.
Uchenna’s cousin, a Reverend of the Anglican
Church, who preferred anonymity said they did
not know much about Uchenna because she was
not communicating with the family, adding that he
only knew about their present situation from the
internet.
Community housing Evans den starts residents’
profiling
Meantime, Community Development Association,
CDA, heads in Bungalow section of Jakande estate
, Oke-Afa, Isolo area of Lagos where Evans, had
one of his hide-outs have begun to profile
residents with a view to ascertaining their
identities and means of lively hood.
The action, is coming on the heels of the
confessional statement by kidnap kingpin, that he
used one of the bungalows on Green street to
keep abducted victims.
Evans, led operatives to the building weekend,
where some left over food used to feed abducted
victims were seen.
Vanguard gathered that two members of the gang
who acted as watchmen to abducted victims,
occupied the bungalow. They however fled when
news of Evans’ arrest reached them.
When Vanguard visited Green street yesterday,
residents were amazed that they had been living
with a criminal without having an inkling.
One of them, Fatai Owolola said: “We never knew
that the building was used to keep abducted
victims. I usually saw two young men coming in
and out of the building, without suspecting
anything bad was going on there. The only time
cars came in was at night and they drive out
almost immediately.”
The kidnappers were said to have taken advantage
of the quietness of the vicinity. Everybody goes
out in the day time and comes back at night
without prying into other peoples business.”
Another resident Mrs Chikwendu Odinaka who
claimed to have been in the area for over 10
years, said: ”Community leaders of all the
bungalows streets have printed forms for
residents. This is aimed at documenting the
identities of all the residents and their places of
work, in order to know where to look for them in
case of eventuality.
‘’We were shocked when policemen brought
Evans, that we had been reading about, to one of
the bungalow buildings on Green street on
Sunday.
‘’Why he chose there instead of better high brow
areas, remains a question only him can answer,“
she said.
The streets where the profiling will be done are:
Brown, Purple, White, Blue, Green, Pink, Silver,
Gold and orange.
Blue and White streets community started
distributing the forms yesterday.