Wherever
you are, please, lift your hands and pray for the ‘billionaire
kidnapper,’ “Evans” Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, the man whose Igbo native
names roughly translate as “God-leads-me-in-whatever-I-do” (for
Chukwudumeme), “Death-is-no respecter-of-a-warrior/great man”
(Onwuamadike).
you are, please, lift your hands and pray for the ‘billionaire
kidnapper,’ “Evans” Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, the man whose Igbo native
names roughly translate as “God-leads-me-in-whatever-I-do” (for
Chukwudumeme), “Death-is-no respecter-of-a-warrior/great man”
(Onwuamadike).
He needs prayer, a lot of it, following
his formal arraignment along his gang members, in court, this week, on
multiple charges of murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, unlawful
possession of firearms and ammunition filed against him by the Force
Legal Department and Lagos State Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP)
before the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja; with subsequent ones coming
up at the Federal High Court and Edo State High Court, Benin.
his formal arraignment along his gang members, in court, this week, on
multiple charges of murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, unlawful
possession of firearms and ammunition filed against him by the Force
Legal Department and Lagos State Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP)
before the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja; with subsequent ones coming
up at the Federal High Court and Edo State High Court, Benin.
While the arraignment, on Wednesday,
centred on his abduction of Mr. Donatus Dunu from whom he and his gang
members collected N150 million before he escaped from their custody, 13
other substantive cases, nine in Lagos, and four in Edo, carrying 52
charges in all, are set to be brought against him and his gang, with
time. You can see why he badly needs prayers. So? Could you, kindly
close your eyes and pray for him!
centred on his abduction of Mr. Donatus Dunu from whom he and his gang
members collected N150 million before he escaped from their custody, 13
other substantive cases, nine in Lagos, and four in Edo, carrying 52
charges in all, are set to be brought against him and his gang, with
time. You can see why he badly needs prayers. So? Could you, kindly
close your eyes and pray for him!
Time to beg victims
While you are at it, Evans says he is
ready, God helping him out of this one, not only to repent but also to
do the necessary penance. He will apologise to his victims if he meets
them in court, he promises in an exclusive interview with Saturday Sun.
“I will,” he swears. “I have been begging them. When they came to
interview me, I knelt down and begged them. I am still begging them to
forgive me.”
ready, God helping him out of this one, not only to repent but also to
do the necessary penance. He will apologise to his victims if he meets
them in court, he promises in an exclusive interview with Saturday Sun.
“I will,” he swears. “I have been begging them. When they came to
interview me, I knelt down and begged them. I am still begging them to
forgive me.”
So?
In your prayers, ask God to touch his victims to forgive him. Yes, as
he forgave those who called him a billionaire. “I am not a billionaire,”
he responded when you asked whether he is truly a billionaire like news
headlines and reports are trying to present him. “It’s just because of
the kind of money I collected from the victims, that is why they decided
to refer to me as a billionaire.”
In your prayers, ask God to touch his victims to forgive him. Yes, as
he forgave those who called him a billionaire. “I am not a billionaire,”
he responded when you asked whether he is truly a billionaire like news
headlines and reports are trying to present him. “It’s just because of
the kind of money I collected from the victims, that is why they decided
to refer to me as a billionaire.”
Evans a pastor?
And, please, let somebody shout
Hallelujah fourteen times. Asked if given a chance, he would like to
become a pastor, he answers that he is already one. He regrets his
action and tries to emphasise that point over and over in this interview
with him and he promises to be a changed person. Even before this time,
he was not really as bad as people are trying to paint him. None of his
victims was tortured nor killed in the process, he pointed out.
Hallelujah fourteen times. Asked if given a chance, he would like to
become a pastor, he answers that he is already one. He regrets his
action and tries to emphasise that point over and over in this interview
with him and he promises to be a changed person. Even before this time,
he was not really as bad as people are trying to paint him. None of his
victims was tortured nor killed in the process, he pointed out.
“The only time that someone died (during
his operations) was during the attempted kidnap of the chairman of The
Young Shall Grow Motors,” he swears. “During that operation, we were
attacked and there was exchange of gunshots. They shot at us and my gang
members shot back at them. It was in the morning that I heard that one
inspector and the driver who drove the Young Shall Grow chairman died.
It was an unfortunate incident. I have totally regretted everything
about crime. It does not pay. I keep telling people to learn from my
story. Crime does not pay. Everything I acquired all these years are
gone just in a day. I will be an agent of change in prison.”
his operations) was during the attempted kidnap of the chairman of The
Young Shall Grow Motors,” he swears. “During that operation, we were
attacked and there was exchange of gunshots. They shot at us and my gang
members shot back at them. It was in the morning that I heard that one
inspector and the driver who drove the Young Shall Grow chairman died.
It was an unfortunate incident. I have totally regretted everything
about crime. It does not pay. I keep telling people to learn from my
story. Crime does not pay. Everything I acquired all these years are
gone just in a day. I will be an agent of change in prison.”
Oh boy! “I already have a covenant with
God. If police take me to court, I told God that I will not tell lies
against the police or victims. I promise to tell the court the truth
about any crime that I am guilty of. Please, people of Nigeria should
forgive me.”
God. If police take me to court, I told God that I will not tell lies
against the police or victims. I promise to tell the court the truth
about any crime that I am guilty of. Please, people of Nigeria should
forgive me.”
Ready to pay for his sins
With 14 cases, 52 charges or whatever
hanging on his neck, he is ready to plead guilty to them all if doing so
will help get him off the hook, he assures you. “Yes, I will,” he says,
looking directly into your eyes. “I want to do so because I don’t want
those lawyers to be deceiving me. I don’t want them to mislead me.”
Asked about the lawyer defending him on the case, he said: “I don’t know
how he came about the matter.” May God take power from the devil, you
almost found yourself saying like Mama Joe, a character in Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Purple Hibiscus, is wont to say. So he is not
going to accept the lawyer’s help if he meets him in court? He curtly
replies no before adding that he is hoping to get a lighter sentence.
hanging on his neck, he is ready to plead guilty to them all if doing so
will help get him off the hook, he assures you. “Yes, I will,” he says,
looking directly into your eyes. “I want to do so because I don’t want
those lawyers to be deceiving me. I don’t want them to mislead me.”
Asked about the lawyer defending him on the case, he said: “I don’t know
how he came about the matter.” May God take power from the devil, you
almost found yourself saying like Mama Joe, a character in Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Purple Hibiscus, is wont to say. So he is not
going to accept the lawyer’s help if he meets him in court? He curtly
replies no before adding that he is hoping to get a lighter sentence.
This is to believe that you are still
praying for Evans! Please, what point are you in your prayers for him?
What exactly are you asking God to do for him? “I just believe in God
for a miracle,” he tells you. “I will serve God all my life. I also
promised the police that I will help them to fight crime.”
praying for Evans! Please, what point are you in your prayers for him?
What exactly are you asking God to do for him? “I just believe in God
for a miracle,” he tells you. “I will serve God all my life. I also
promised the police that I will help them to fight crime.”
If I die, I die
In addition, he is asking forgiveness
from his victims. “I will continue to beg them to forgive me even if
they attempt to kill me and If I have to die, then I die”, he says. You
guess he has not seen his wife and kids since he was arrested, you told
him. What message would he want you to give to them? “I want you to tell
them that I am still alive and healthy. They should simply pray for me
that the court will not sentence me to death.”
from his victims. “I will continue to beg them to forgive me even if
they attempt to kill me and If I have to die, then I die”, he says. You
guess he has not seen his wife and kids since he was arrested, you told
him. What message would he want you to give to them? “I want you to tell
them that I am still alive and healthy. They should simply pray for me
that the court will not sentence me to death.”