Mrs Uchenna |
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. Evans wife, Uchenna.
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.