U return visit to Akamili, Umudim in Nnewi, the
home town of the dreaded kidnap kingpin, Mr.
Chidumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, has
revealed that a magnificent property in the
maiden home compound of his mother, Mrs.
Chinwe Onwuamadike, was built by the mother
And following the large number of people
trouping into a directive has been given by
leaders of the community to their people not to
answer further questions from visitors
concerning Evans and his family.
The village had become a Mecca of sort since
the arrest of Evans at his Magodo residence in
Lagos, as visitors have been going to the area
for one inquiry or the other.
Two days after the arrest of Evans, people in the
area, who were asked for the direction of the
home of the Onwuamadikes freely provided the
needed information and some even volunteered
to take the visitors to the compound.
But on noticing the increasing number of people
coming to the community as well as the
controversy that trailed the information provided,
it suddenly became more difficult to get people
to direct the visitors, as a result of what a
source said was a directive by some community
leaders.
Commercial motorcycle operators, who were
making brisk business by taking visitors to
Akamili, said, yesterday, that they had been
warned not to bring visitors to the village
anymore. But the directive could not be
effectuated as the motorcycle operators
continued moving their human cargo.
However, to give teeth to the directive, it was
gathered, yesterday, that leaders in the village
had taken a decision that anyone found to be
directing visitors to people’s houses in the area
risked payment of an unspecified fine.
The reason, it was gathered, was because of
alleged conflicting statements from members of
the family and those who answered questions
posed by the visitors.
One of the conflicting statements was the one
allegedly made by Evans’ wife, that she was
taking care of her husband’s siblings.
Sunday Vanguard was told that this is far from
the truth. Some of the reasons they gave for
their dissenting voice can be located in what one
of the family members said: “How can somebody
we do not know tell people that she has been
taking care of us? Here is a woman we have no
idea of, we don’t know how she looks and we
have not seen her before. At no time did we see,
hear or participate in any marriage rites that
would make an individual claim to the wife of
Evans. People can choose to say whatever they
like when they have problems. When did we even
see her, not to talk of the woman feeding us in
this family”.
According to a community leader in the area,
most people in the village did not know Evans
and his wife and wondered why his wife would
claim to be taking care of people from that
village.
Meanwhile, following the statement by Evans
father, Mr. Stephen Onwamadike, that his
estranged wife and mother of Evans, Mrs.
Chinwe Onwuamadike, had so much influence on
his son, and that that contributed greatly towards
the wrong path the ioy toed, it became more
difficult to know her where about.
Though she no longer lives with her husband, she
was said to be virtually residing in her maiden
home a few meters away from her husband’s
home.
In fact, Mrs. Onwuamadike was believed to be
the bread winner in her maiden home, where it
was also believed that the magnificent house in
that compound was built by her.
However, checks in her maiden home showed
that she disappeared few days after the arrest of
her son by the police and fled to an unknown
place.
While some people in her village, Akamili,
Umudim said she was seen in Nnewi few weeks
ago, others said she traveled to Lagos few days
before the arrest of her son.
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