The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended 11 armed robbery suspects including five workers of a commercial bank.
One of the workers, a senior marketing executive of the bank’s branch in Gbagada, is currently being interrogated by detectives at the state’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
According to reports made available to PUNCH Metro, the senior marketing executive allegedly conspired with two security personnel of the bank and two other staff to perpetrate the robbery of a customer who was to deposit some money running into millions of naira.
The bank workers were said to have invited one Sadiq, believed by the police to be a notorious armed robber in the state, who in turn invited six other members of his gang.
The gang allegedly procured guns in Lagos and ordered for more from Edo State.
The robbery was foiled when policemen through intelligence report got information of the planned robbery. The policemen stormed the bank premises incognito on the day the robbery was to take place.
It was learnt that one of the suspects had told the police that their weapons including two pistols were already concealed in the bank’s Computer Central Processing Unit with plans to use them on the day of the robbery.
The robbers who pretended to be customers of the bank had dressed in suits while Sadiq wore a kaftan. But they did not know that plain-clothed policemen had cordoned off the area while some other policemen were in the banking hall.
A police source said, “The suspected robbers got more than what they expected when detectives rounded them up and whisked them to the state police command headquarters.”
One of the suspects further confessed that the bank’s marketing executive gave them money to procure the arms and ammunition.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Joseph Jaiyeoba, confirmed the arrest in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday.
He, however, said further investigations were still ongoing with a view of ensuring that all those connected with the incident were arrested.
Jaiyeoba said, “The employees of the bank that were arrested were actually four in number. They planned with the security guard who then recruited armed robbers for them.
“The security guard’s job was to plant the guns inside the CPU of the computer so that when the armed robbers came in, they would be able to enter as normal customers.
“The robbers planned to rob after closing hours when customers were no longer allowed access into the banking hall. The commander, MOPOL 2, was able to get wind of the plan and led his team to the bank.
“They arrested the security guard who later confessed and gave his accomplices up. Meanwhile, investigations are ongoing.”
Source: Punch Newspapers
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This is it,in nigeria peo are force to job without considering who they”re.
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Its strange,its unbelivable dat tins lik dis happen,God save us
Na wa o, God wll surely save those that belong to him nd the money must be clean money
@Oshibu Fidelis, what form are u referring to? The Uniuyo post UME form?
This is another EVIDENCE/PROOF that crime, especially violent crime is caused by excessive GREED, IMPUNITY, INDISCIPLINE and EXTREMISM not poverty or illiteracy. Bank officials and Security guards are educated and employed but turn to be criminals. What do you say of Boko Haram boys and girls working for politicians,religious extremists and businessmen and women? What we need in Nigeria and Africa is Full Data Base of all Citizens and Residents of every Country, State, LGA, WARD, Community including all relevant statistics especially income/assets/wealth and sources..
I’M NOT SURPRISED!
It might ‘ve hit some pple as a surprise that a bank marketing executive was indicted in a robbery case. That should further inform our security operatives about the bunch of graduates our universities nd other tertiary institutions now produce. A lot of them enlist into various shades of ocultic groupings even in primary school.
Our youths, the leaders of tommorrow are all almost vampires, so what’s the future and the prospect of that tommorrow? The leaders of today were youths of yesterday initiated in different cults and in every leadership position they found themselves they quarrel, fight and kill.
I’m not surprised at all by this GTB official implicated in a robbery issue.
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