A high court judge sitting at Ikeja, Lagos State, Monday, sentenced two former gang members of alleged billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans to 41 years in prison.
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo sentenced the convicts, 32-year-old Kelvin Emenike Ukoh and Emeka Obasi, 33, over the abduction of one Ugoje Jude, a shipping agent, and his staff, Miss Piriye Gogo on August 3, 2012.
The convicts were arraigned 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.
After considering the evidence of the case, the trial judge, Justice Taiwo convicted and sentenced Ukoh and Obasi to 5, 15 and 21 years for conspiracy, kidnapping and armed robbery respectively, while the other three accused persons were discharged and acquitted.
The judge held that the prosecution could not prove that those acquitted Igbani, Osuagwu and Ngozi were linked to the alleged charges of murder, conspiracy, kidnapping and armed robbery.