Court sentences Evans’ gang members to 41 years imprisonment
At the resumed hearing on the kidnapping and murder allegations against Evans and his gang on Monday, the judge pronounced a 41-year jail term on two of the gang members.
The convicts, 32-year-old Kelvin Emenike Ukoh and 33-year-old Emeka Obasi, were found guilty of abducting one Ugoje Jude, a shipping agent, and his staff, Miss Piriye Gogo on August 3, 2012.
The gang had kidnapped Ugoje and Gogo who were taken to an unknown destination by their leader, Evans.
Miss Gogo told the court how the convicts almost raped her inside the car, until she convinced them that she was on her period.
Gogo described her experience as “terrible”.
“He came into the car, tore my clothes, pulled down a side of my bra and began caressing my breast. He thereafter started dragging down my shirt and I began begging him,” she said.
“I begged him until I had nothing else I could plead with. I begged him intensely for mercy and even told him that I was menstruating.
“It was as though all my pleas fell on deaf ears. I had to insert my hand into my vagina just to show him. The blood I showed him prevented him from raping me. It was a terrible experience.”
Jude also told the court that the kidnappers eventually collected a N5million ransom after initially demanding N10million.
Justice Taiwo of the Ikeja High Court sentenced Ukoh and Obasi to 5, 15 and 21 years for conspiracy, kidnapping and armed robbery respectively.
Evans still awaits his judgment.
