Standup9ja: We have powers to keep Evans for 3 months —
Police
Rising from an emergency meeting, the police authorities
said that they have power to keep the arrested kidnapping kingpin Chukwudumeme
Onwuamadike, widely known as Evans, in their custody.
A senior police source said that some people who felt that
their interest was being threatened were the ones behind the move to get the
court to release Evans.
A lawyer had approached a Federal High Court to challenge
the continued detention of Evans, stressing that it violated Evans’ fundamental
human right.
Sources at the police high command said it was Evans’ gang
members yet to be arrested that sought for and got the services of the lawyer
to frustrate further investigation into the case.
It was however gathered that the Police expected such a move
early enough and had equally secured an order of the Federal High Court to
detain Evans for at least three months.
The order, a police source told newsmen, was secured last week
Thursday, and it covers the retention of Evans and all his gang members so far
arrested for three months.
The source said this was to enable the police conclude all
investigations in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa so that all those involved in
the kidnapping ring run by Evans would be brought to book.
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