According to The Point, Kyari revealed that to avoid any delay due to
the usual chaotic traffic situation on Lagos roads, he had to quickly
jump on a commercial motorcycle from his Ikeja GRA location to Magodo
GRA Phase II to arrest Evans, who he had earlier been informed by his
men already deployed in the area, was making frantic preparations to
leave his mansion very soon.
“In the early hours of Sunday at about 1.30am, Evans and some of his
gang members went out to a club around Ikeja and returned at 5.10am. So,
we were very sure Sunday would be our day. So, I decided to go and
cleanup myself and have a little rest before I returned to Magodo.
I was still resting when my guys called that the target was set; that it appeared he wanted to go out. So, I had to take Okada from where I was, to meet up.
“You won’t believe this, but it’s the truth. Do you know that when my surveillance team alerted me of the suspect’s presence at his Magodo mansion, I had no other option than to take Okada from where I was at Ikeja GRA to Magodo?
Kyari went further to say that though it might sound funny, policemen
sometimes must do “unconventional things” to get at their targets or
what they actually wanted.
I was still resting when my guys called that the target was set; that it appeared he wanted to go out. So, I had to take Okada from where I was, to meet up.
“You won’t believe this, but it’s the truth. Do you know that when my surveillance team alerted me of the suspect’s presence at his Magodo mansion, I had no other option than to take Okada from where I was at Ikeja GRA to Magodo?
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“I was approaching former tollgate, when I got another call that he might drive out any moment. So, I instructed my guys to give him warning shots; that was to announce our presence, and that kept him indoors until I got there and directed the affairs,” he said.The IRT boss stated that he and his team had been on Evans’ trail for close to 10 years until the kidnap kingpin met his waterloo last Sunday.
“We have been following him, through intelligence gathering and surveillance, but we have always lost him. He is a very intelligent criminal with a very sound IQ, I must tell you,” he said.Kyari further disclosed that he and his team mounted a surveillance on Evans five days before last Sunday, when he was finally arrested.
“When we tracked him to Lagos, I was in Abuja. The moment I was sure he was in Lagos, we moved down to Lagos on Monday of that week. We came by road and slept at a police station close to Evans’ residence and started our surveillance on him,” he said.
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