How bank manager, dismissed soldier connived to rob bank in Ekiti — Ogun CP
Posted by Sulaiman Fasasi | 25 December 2019 | 1,329 times
Kenneth Ebrimson, the
Ogun State Police Commissioner of Police, has narrated how an armed robbery
syndicate involving a dismissed soldier planned to rob a bank in Ekiti State,
but were arrested before carrying out their plan.
The Police boss while
parading the suspect on Tuesday, at police headquarters, in Eleweran, Abeokuta,
the Ogun State capital, revealed that the syndicate was contracted the manager
of the bank in the target.
Ebrimson said the arrest
of four suspects; Mathew Olagoke, Ahmed Abdullahi, Johnson Ojo and Adebanjo
Bamidele, on December 5 followed an intelligent report received by the police.
According to him, men of
the IGP-STS swiftly swung into action and headed to Ibadan where the robbers
were intercepted and arrested with a military uniform.
Arrested from them were
three locally made shotguns, 21 live cartridges and one expended, four bank
ATMs, seven mobile phones and assorted charms.
Some of the suspects,
Johnson Ojo and Mathew Olagoke confirmed to Dele Independent that they were on
their way to Ekiti to rob the bank before they were arrested.
Ojo said it was one of
his brother simply identified as Dele who contacted the gang and gave them
information about some amount of money kept in the bank but was yet to be
deposited at the bank.
According to him, Ojo
was contacted by one of his brother identified as Ade who was contracted by the
manager of the bank in question.
He further revealed that
six other officials of the Bank were part of the conspiracy to rob the bank of
the money.
He said all plans were
hatched in the Sango Ota area of the state with the bank manager present at the
meeting.
Olagoke on his part,
while explaining his involvement in the deal said they had to contact a Soldier
serving in Ogun State to be part of the operation.
He said since the
soldier, identified as Emmanuel, could not provide the necessary guns for the
operation, the bank manager had to support the team with N100, 000 to acquire
the guns.
He further said that
Johnson’s brother was the one who provides the vehicle for the operation in
which they were arrested in Ibadan.
The suspects were
amongst 23 other suspects paraded by the Police Commissioner for various
offences ranging from armed robbery, conspiracy, and armed robbery, kidnapping,
and murder.
The Police Commissioner
however assured of high visibility policing during the yuletide period across
the State. (Independent)
Source: News Express
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