On 7/6/2010 the above mentioned officer was arrested by the Abia State Command for an undisclosed offence. Search was conducted in his hotel room, village home, Awka home as well as Ever Royal Suites and nothing incriminating was found. He was later taken to Abuja to see the I.G. Police, Mr.Ogbonnaya Onovo who accused him of not proceeding on his transfer to Sokoto and even questioned him on how he was transferred from Bauchi to Umuahia. He further went on to tell him that he has been hearing his name for a very long time and that the earlier he gets him out of the system the better. He further stated that Evans has shot himself on the leg because of a petition written against him by one Mr. Isaac Nwosu who hails from the same town with Evans.

In the petition it was stated or alleged that Evans was behind the kidnapping of his younger cousin, Mr. Kingsley Osualla in February last year and subsequently killed him on May 2^nd 2010. He also alleged that Evans kidnapped the former Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chris Ngige and that Evans owns a hotel where he trains and harbours kidnappers and that as far as he is concerned, Evans is responsible for all the kidnappings in the South-East. All these allegations sounded very strange to Evans who thought it was some kind of joke. In his defence, Evans told his own side of the story viz:- On February 6, 2009 Evans got a phone call while at Umuahia that his cousin Chief Kingsley Osualla had been kidnapped. He after the shock, made telephone calls to some of his friends intimating them of what had happened to him. He specifically summoned Prophet and Igwe Mbanabu to proceed to Enugu immediately to the house of Kingsley so that if the kidnappers called Kingsley’s wife, they should know what they wanted. Eventually they called and demanded for N50 million ransom and that it was not an ordinary kidnap but a business one. They were prevailed on to temper justice with mercy but all to no avail. They later came down to N10m. Some of Kingsley’s friends gathered N1.1m to give the kidnappers but Evans advised them not to yet until he got the facts he needed. The petitioner defied this instruction and went and dropped the money to the annoyance of Evans and those he sent. Despite the money allegedly dropped, Kingsley was still not released. There was confusion everywhere because the kidnappers denied receiving any money. When Kingsley’s phone was called they started torturing him. They put the phone on speaker so that the callers could hear his cries. This action necessitated Kingsley’s uncle, Chief Isaiah Azubuike to raise another N1.6m to add to the one already dropped. Prophet and Igwe had gotten annoyed over the dropping of the first money and still Kingsley was not released and so they felt insulted that nobody was appreciating their efforts. This made Hippolytus Ohia, a cousin to Kingsley and his business partner go to Enugu and as Evans was told later collected the money from whoever and went and dropped it at an unknown destination but Kingsley was still not released. Later, Kingsley was rescued by Enugu police command and three of the kidnappers were arrested. They never mentioned Evans, nor any of the people mentioned above.

More than a year after, 2^nd May specifically Kingsley was gruesomely murdered in his village, Akanu-Umuobom in Ideato South L.G.A of Imo State. Some suspects were arrested and it was Evans after interrogation who handed them over to SARS Owerri for investigation. During the course of arresting the suspects and every other event that occurred, the petitioner Mr. Isaac Nwosu was nowhere to be seen. Evans asked of his whereabouts but nobody knew. Evans then called the deceased’s wife and advised her to be very careful because of Isaac’s movement. The deceased was last seen with Isaac Nwosu and it was because of ritual murder that Isaac had that he prevailed on Kingsley not to travel back to Enugu after the traditional wedding of their cousin, Mrs. Blessing Azubuike and Evans mother’s thanksgiving service the next day. In a sudden twist of events, Evans became a suspect overnight because Isaac Nwosu became afraid that Evans would come for him having been convinced that he caused his brother’s death. As a sort of defence mechanism he ganged up with Evans’s enemies who have been looking for an opportunity to nail him because he has shone as Onwa for so long that everything in the town is revolved around him and petitioned the I.G.P with all sorts of trumped up unsubstantiable allegations against him. As God would have it, the murderer of Kingsley, one Mr. Paul Uzoagba alias Onyenawauya was arrested at Abakaliki. He confessed that they were going for a robbery operation at Akokwa when they saw the deceased in the village market at about 7p.m. They tailed him to his house and in a desperate attempt to snatch his car, a struggle ensued and in the process, they shot him, put him in his vehicle and drove off. They later abandoned the car in front of Evans’s gate with the deceased’s body inside when they found out that escaping with the car was difficult and escaped with their motorcycles. While the robbers were attacking Kingsley, his mobile police escort quietly escaped with his AK 47 rifle with 60 rounds of ammunition.

Evans has since been in detention for no just cause. Up till now, nobody has come out to say Evans sponsors him as a kidnapper, or was kidnapped by Evans or is being trained by Evans. All the petitioner and his co-evil plotters did was to embark on a campaign of calumny against Evans by sponsoring false newspaper publications. It is on record that while Evans was D.P.O Osisioma for just three weeks, there was no single incident or crime recorded. Because of his enviable record, the Police Commissioner had to withdraw him to state headquarters to head his Intelligence Unit. This office he held tenaciously and efficiently until his arrest and detention. Up till this moment, the police authorities have not even invited the petitioner and Evans to a face to face interview so that he can explain where he got his facts. What the petitioner is after is any day Evans is released he will run away from this country.   

Mozi  asks:who is the writer of this passage? Whoever should be …..