The leader of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, has explained why operatives in his squad took photographs with Chukwudi Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans.
Kyari offered the explanation in response to a criticism of the photographs by a popular Nollywood actress.
The actress had described the photographs as unprofessional.
Writing on his Facebook page, Kyari said: “Friends, please the story going round social media that I responded to the negative remarks made against us by Nollywood is false. That statement is not from me. Number one, I’m too busy to respond to this type of trivial issues; though it’s unfortunate that when somebody goes extra length and spent several years chasing an extremely smart, notorious and deadly criminal terrorizing innocent citizens of this country for over 20 years and suddenly somebody feels ridiculing us is the best thing to do. Secondly, the group picture we had with our biggest catch Evans was meant to be in our personal IRT achievement album not the social media and until this moment we don’t know who sent it to the social media. We have hard copy album that carry all pictures of our outstanding achievements like the arrest of Godogodo, China, Nnamdi, Yemi Boss, Abdullahi, Victor, Vampire and others.
“These are the pictures/album that we keep even after retirement to celebrate our achievements. Those pictures are for this album not social media. I’m happy to snap the pictures with Evans our biggest catch like we did during Godogodo and others. It will remain in my album for life and by God’s grace my grandchildren will see same pictures and give kudos to their grandpa. Please, she is entitled to her opinion. I solicit that nobody should join issues with her and I wish her the best.”