He revealed that he had to take a ride on a commercial motorcycle, popularly known as okada, to enable him move faster to the Magodo GRA Phase II residence of notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudi Onuamadike, aka Evans, to effect his arrest.
Kyari said to avoid any delay due to the usual chaotic traffic
situation on Lagos roads, he had to quickly jump on a commercial
motorcycle from his Ikeja GRA location to Magodo GRA Phase II to arrest
Evans, who he had earlier been informed by his men already deployed in
the area, was making frantic preparations to leave his mansion very
soon.
Read what he said below
“At about 1.30am, Evans and some of his gang members went
out to a club around Ikeja and returned at 5.10am. So, we were very sure
Sunday would be our day. So, I decided to go and cleanup myself and
have a little rest before I returned to Magodo. I was still resting when
my guys called that the target was set; that it appeared he wanted to
go out. So, I had to take Okada from where I was, to meet up.
“You won’t believe this, but it’s the truth. Do you know that
when my surveillance team alerted me of the suspect’s
presence at his Magodo mansion, I had no other option than to take Okada
from where I was at Ikeja GRA to Magodo?”
Kyari said though it might sound funny, policemen sometimes must do “unconventional things” to get at their targets or what they actually wanted.
“I was approaching former tollgate, when I got another call
that he might drive out any moment. So, I instructed my guys to give
him warning shots; that was to announce our presence, and that kept him
indoors until I got there and directed the affairs,” he said.
The IRT boss stated that he and his team had been on Evans’ trail for
close to 10 years until the kidnap kingpin met his waterloo last
Sunday.
“We have been following him, through intelligence gathering and surveillance, but we have always lost him.
He is a very intelligent criminal with a very sound IQ, I must tell you,” he said.
Kyari further disclosed that he and his team mounted a surveillance
on Evans five days before last Sunday, when he was finally arrested.
“When we tracked him to Lagos, I was in Abuja. The moment I
was sure he was in Lagos, we moved down to Lagos on Monday of that week.
We came by road and slept at a police station close to Evans’ residence
and started our surveillance on him,” he said.
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