Two former gang-members of the notorious kidnap Kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans have been sentenced to 41 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos.

The convicts: Kelvin Emenike Ukoh, 32 and Emeka Obasi, 33 were jailed for the kidnap of one Mr Ugoje Jude, a shipping agent, and his staff, Miss Piriye Gogo on August 3, 2012, at about 9 pm, which Evans also reportedly participated in.

Recall that a 34-year-old Director with Ocean Glory, Paul Cole, who hails from Ohafia in Abia State, was reportedly kidnapped on August 3rd, 2012, at Festac Town, together with his General Manager, Jude Ugoje, and another staff, Piriye Gogo, and taken to an unknown destination by Evans.

The abductors initially demanded a N10M ransom but later collected N5m on August 6th, 2012, after negotiations, at Maza-maza, before letting their victim off the hook.

But the police later arrested the two convicts and arraigned them sometime in 2013 alongside three others: Uche Igbani, 28, Chibuzor Osuagwu, 33 and a 36-year-old woman, Onowu Ngozi, on a 14 count-charge bothering on conspiracy, kidnapping, armed robbery and murder.

The State prosecuting Counsel, Mrs K. O Sarumi told the court that the convicts abducted the victims at gunpoint, at Alakija into 7th Avenue, while driving home in a Honda Pilot car and took them to an unidentified location.

•Excerpted from a New Telegraph report