The owner of Maydon Pharmaceutical Company, Chief Donatus Dunu, is
one of the victims of the Nigerian suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme
Onwuamadike aka Evans.
Dunu, incidentally, was instrumental
in the arrest of Evans. He was fortunate to escape from where he was being held
at Evans’ detention camp at Igando, Lagos.
After his escape, Dunu told police
that one of his staff, Emeka Egbulugha, engineered his abduction. Egbulugha was
arrested and charged to court.
He was, however, released by the
court, after Evans and gang during an identification parade, said they didn’t
know Egbulugha. Before his release, Egbulugha had repeatedly denied knowing
anything about his boss abduction.
Speaking with journalists yesterday,
Dunu, kicked against the release of Egbulugha, insisting that his life was now
in danger.
He said it was not right for the
court to grant Egbulugha and others he fingered in his abduction bail.
He said: “I don’t think the police
carried out thorough investigation after the so-called identification parade
which was simply a charade. Even if court had course to grant him bail,
the police know how to go about such cases by re-arresting him until they carry
out diligent investigation. I am, therefore, calling on police authorities to
do the needful by re-arresting Emeka and investigating him thoroughly.
“Nobody should have allowed those
suspected workers in my company to be granted bail under any guise because I
have evidence of the active participation, especially Emeka, my pharmacist. Releasing
him has worsened my plight. I and members of my family now live in perpetual
fear for our lives.”
Dunu, who said he had known Egbulugha
since 2003, insisted that not only did he hear the man’s voice, he also saw him
at the den a few days after his abduction.
Dunu said: “He asked the kidnappers
where I was kept. They showed him; he opened the door where they kept me in
chains and our eyes met. Though I was blindfolded, I was about eating
when I heard his voice and I normally remove the blind. That was how I
saw him and I had the greatest shock of my life. The man in charge of the den,
Uche, whom he claimed not to know, speaks the same dialect with him. He
is the person Emeka used to meet anytime he visited. There was also another
member of the gang who speaks Abakiliki dialect; I don’t know whether those in
police net have confessed his whereabouts to the police.”
According to him, he suspected that
the keeper of the den and Egbulugha are from the same village because of their
dialect.
He recounted: “Those guarding me
were initially two, but when the Abakiliki man travelled on Easter Monday, someone
came to replace him. The new guy was always coughing. I knew that the Abakiliki man travelled
because I heard Emeka discussing with Uche, asking whether he had travelled and
Uche said, yes.”
Dunu said that he also overheard Egbulugha
and Uche discussing about killing, but decided to wait, “until Chairman comes
back.”
Two weeks after the discussion,
Evans, the chairman came.
“I knew chairman was around because
all the doors were shut. The generator was switched on,” said Dunu. “His visit
did not last for more than 10 minutes. That was the first and only time he came
to the den. That night, the Abakiliki man brought noodles for dinner. He
told me to eat, so that I would have energy to face ‘us at the canal.’ They said
canal was where they use to ‘bath’ their captives. I concluded that it means where
they kill their victims.”
He said that he was made to realize
that it was the Abakiliki man that would kill him when the order comes.
He said: “Earlier, I thought that
the killing they were discussing was another person. But after this canal
discussion, I knew I was the target. After that, I overheard Emeka again,
about two weeks later, discussing with Uche saying that; “If they want to kill
him, they should kill him. In fact, kill him.” Then, their last discussion
was on Wednesday before my escape on Friday. I heard Emeka again asking
whether they have killed me. They said no, it was going to be Friday
night. That was when I concluded that it was all over.”
He said that the only issue he had
with Egbulugha was his suspicion that the man and other staff were stealing
goods from his warehouse.
He noted: “I made changes which I
suspect did not favour him. I strongly suspected that was his motive for
conniving with those kidnappers. In fact, before my abduction, we had a
meeting with a foreign partner. I remember vividly that during one of my
telephone conversations with their chairman, whom I suspected was Evans, he
asked me who the two ladies in my office were; Emeka came to the office that
same day and those ladies were with me. Who told the chairman that I was
with two ladies in my office? These are the unanswered questions and police
should have asked these questions.”
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