Nigerian Police has paraded one Chukwudi Dumeme Onuamadike, a.k.a Evans, who it says is the leader of a notorious kidnap gang behind many abductions that have instilled fear in Nigerians.

Onuamadike was paraded along with six suspected top members of his gang at the headquarters of the Lagos State Police Command by the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood.

Moshood, a Chief Superintendent of Police, said the suspected kidnap kingpin and his gang members were arrested at Magodo Estate in Lagos after “an intense gun battle” with the Joint Special Forces led by the Intelligence Response Team, the Lagos State Police Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit and Technical and Intelligent Unit of the Force under the supervision of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State.

According to him, Onuamadike, a native of Nnewi in Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State is the vicious leader of the highly organised kidnap syndicate and criminal gang responsible for the kidnap of prominent Nigerians in Lagos and many states across the country.

He was declared wanted in August 2013 for allegedly masterminding the attempted kidnap of the owner of Young Shall Grow Motors, Vincent Obianudo, in FESTAC, Lagos.

During the incident, a policeman who foiled the attempt to kidnap Obianudo by killing three of the gang members was killed.