Reports from the Saturday Sun, says billionaire kidnapper, Evans has vanished from police custody and taken to an unknown location.
Read their report below…
Saturday Sun has gathered that Evans is not dead as his family now fears
but has been moved from the Lagos police command headquarters cell by
about 30 heavily armed men at midnight few days ago to an undisclosed
destination. Some senior police officers in the know told Saturday Sun he was moved to AbujaIndeed, in the last few days, a palpable silence seemed to have enshrouded the Evans phenomenon.
Where is Evans? It is a question the police is not prepared to
officially answer right now. A man who hitherto divulged the details of
his criminal life to the public almost on a daily basis is suddenly no
longer accessible to even the press corps.All a Saturday Sun reporter who visited the state police command was
told was that Evans is no longer allowed to talk to the press till
further notice.
The secrecy surrounding his whereabouts in the official quarters baffles
those who have closely followed his story since his arrest.
After days of sniffing around the Lagos police formations to get
information on Evans whereabouts, it was gathered that the kidnap
kingpin had been moved out of the Lagos command headquarters days ago by
heavily armed policemen and is yet to be returned.
Police had last week said they had got a court order to detain him for
three months to give them enough time to complete their investigation.
This followed two suits filed by Evans lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, at the
High Court seeking his release and claiming N300m damages from the
police.Some senior police officers who spoke to Saturday Sun on condition of
anonymity expressed fears that Evans might not make it to the court.
They argued that he might plot his escape from prison, or get across to
some of his members who are still on the run. Their concerns are not
farfetched, given that several inmates in the past had reportedly
committed much heinous crimes even while in prison.
Some of the officers confirmed that Evans was no longer in the police
cell in Lagos. “He has not been returned since he was moved out. Evans
is a broken man; police can’t resort to extra-judicial killings at this
point. He is cooperating, and he is ready to help return all his
ill-gotten wealth as soon as possible”, one of the officers said.
Another reliable source at the police command told Saturday Sun “Evans
is not an ordinary criminal. I guess that they took him out for further
investigation but I don’t know why they are yet to return him to his
cell.” The source further assured: “No one is planning to kill Evans. I
believe that they will return him later. He could be in any good cell in
the state for security reasons, but I can assure you that he is not
dead yet. Even if anything happens to him, if he dies in custody, it
will be as a result of cancer which he claims he is suffering from.”