Billionaire transporter and Chairman of G. U. O. Motors
Limited, Chief Godwin Okeke, yesterday, commenced his evidence-in-chief
at an Onitsha High Court in Anambra State, presided over by Justice
Chudi Nwankwo, in respect of his abduction by kidnappers in Onitsha on
Sunday, August 23, 2009.
Okeke who spoke under oath, shortly after the court granted a motion
to file and serve additional prove of evidence with respect to one of
the suspected kidnappers, Alexander Onyinanya, filed by the prosecution
counsel, Chris Ajugwe with Mrs. N. D. Wilcox.
He narrated his encounter with the kidnappers at the All Saints
Anglican Church Cathedral, Onitsha when he went for a Sunday worship
with his wife, driver and some family members.
However, counsel to the first and third accused persons, O. U. Uduma
and J. N. Okongwu, did not object to the prosecution counsel’s motion to
file and serve additional prove of evidence with respect to the third
accused, Onyinanya.
Led in the evidence by his counsel, Okeke stated that he went for 7
a.m. service which ended at about 10 a.m, adding that between 10.30 and
11 a.m., his wife mounted the steering of his Nissan Amanda Spots
Utility Van, SUV, and was driving towards the church gate when suddenly,
gunmen blocked the car with a bus in front and a Mercedes Benz car at
the rear.
