Evans: Two Sides Of The Same Coin

Watching the whole debacle of the kidnap kingpin, Mr Chidumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans unfolds, you would have been tempted to imagine the affluence the extended families of the suspected notorious kidnapper must be in. But your imagination would have been a little too wild.

When Vanguard news interacted with Mr. Chukwuemeka Okoye, brother-in-law of Evans who lives in the sleepy village of Awo-Oraifite in Ekwusigo local government area of Anambra State, he gave an impression of a family in abject poverty.

Chukwuemeka told Sunday Vanguard that his parents had 13 children, saying all of them had to struggle to make ends meet by engaging in menial jobs. It was, therefore, not surprising that Uchenna, Evans’ wife and the last of the 13 children, had to get married very early so as to leave the poor environment.

Chukwuemeka’s family of six, along with the unmarried elder sister of Evans’ wife, were found living in the house built in the village by one of his brothers residing in South Africa.

To express how detached the wife of the suspected kidnapper is from the family, Chukwuemeka, a peasant farmer and construction site labourer, said his sister had not visited home since she got married in 2006.

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