How Kidnap Of Lagos Businessman Led To The Arrest Of Evans
An abduction carried out by the Evans gang on February 14 this year proved to be a fatal error as the captured businessman, Donatus Dunu, became the gang’s nemesis. Dunu is a pharmacist and the owner of Maydon Pharmaceutical Company, Ilupeju, Lagos. He had barely left his office in the evening of 14 February, the lovers day, when he was blocked by a vehicle. Before he knew it, Evans’ gun-wielding men had stepped out of the vehicle and bundled the pharmacist into their vehicle and sped off to No 21, Prophet Asaye Close, New Igando, a Lagos suburb where he was kept for three months. Evans subsequently demanded the payment of one million euro as ransom. Despite pleas by the family of Dunu to make Evans reduce the ransom, even after N100 million had been paid to him, he was adamant. He insisted on the one million euro or Dunu life. While looking for the money, Dunu’s wife, who is also a director of the company, staff members organized prayers for the s...