Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudi Onuamadike, popularly known as Evans, and two others have been found guilty of conspiracy and kidnapping by an Ikeja High Court.
Evans was arrested in 2016 after the police announced a thirty-million-naira bounty in return for information leading to his arrest.
For at least seven years, Evans co-ordinated bank robberies across Oyo, Port Harcourt and Abia, as well as numerous high-profile kidnaps whose ransoms amount to hundreds of millions of naira.
He was found guilty on Friday, in a three-hour judgment delivered by Justice Hakeem Oshodi, who also convicted two of Evans’s co-defendants, Uche Amadi and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu.
Evans was found guilty of kidnapping Mr Donatius Dunu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Oshodi found the three persons guilty of conspiracy and kidnapping.
The judge, however, discharged and acquitted the other co-defendants, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi, an ex-soldier; and Victor Aduba, also an ex-soldier.
He held that there was no evidence linking them to the crimes.
At the time of filing this report, the case has been stood down for an hour for sentencing of the convicts.