Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, billionaire kidnapper better known as Evans, pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit felony to wit kidnapping under Section 411 of the Lagos State Criminal Laws and also to kidnapping. .

Evans made the plea at a sitting of the Lagos state high court on Thursday.

At his last court appearance in August, Evans acknowledged he was guilty when the charges were read to him.

Lagos state government had arraigned Evans alongside five others; Uche Amadi, Ogechi Izechukwu, Okechukwu Nwachukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Chukwunonso, before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Ikeja Division High Court of Lagos State.

Justice Hakeem Oshodi, who led the prosecution, asked for a trial date and ordered all defendants to be remanded in custody.