{"id":76612,"date":"2025-10-13T18:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76612"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:39:33","slug":"lagos-re-arraigns-kidnap-kingpin-evans-on-fresh-murder-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/13\/lagos-re-arraigns-kidnap-kingpin-evans-on-fresh-murder-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Re-Arraigns Kidnap Kingpin Evans on Fresh Murder Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Government on Monday re-arraigned convicted billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, on fresh charges related to the killing of two police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Evans and his co-defendant, Joseph Emeka, appeared before Justice A. O. Ogala of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, on a five-count charge bordering on murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to kidnap.<\/p>\n<p>The new case expands the list of crimes linked to the notorious kidnapper, who has already been convicted in several kidnapping cases.<\/p>\n<p>The state government said the charges aim to ensure justice for the slain officers allegedly targeted during Evans\u2019 criminal operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Lagos State Government on Monday re-arraigned convicted billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, on fresh charges related to the killing of two police officers. Evans and his co-defendant, Joseph Emeka, appeared before Justice A. O. Ogala of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, on a five-count charge bordering on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76614,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76612\/revisions\/76614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}