Four suspected members of the armed robbery gang which
unleashed terror on commercial banks in the Agbara area of Ogun State last
Thursday have confessed to carting away N28m during the operation after their
arrest and interrogation. It was gathered that the suspected gang members were
arrested by the police in the Sapele area of Delta State.
A correspondent
learnt from a reliable police source that the suspects confessed in their
statements that they were also responsible for the killings of seven operatives
of the Department of State Service on September 16, 2015.
It was learnt that the suspects, who were picked up by the
Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, engaged the
policemen in a shootout during which another policeman was killed. The robbers, numbering 40, had stormed four commercial banks
in the Agbara area of Ogun State killing a corporal identified as Kadiri Aliyu,
and making away with millions of naira from Zenith Bank.
It had also been reported that the robbers, who were clad in
police and military uniforms, gained entry into the bank after blowing up the
bank’s rotor doors with dynamite, sacking policemen inside the Armoured
Personnel Carrier in the area, during which Aliyu was shot dead.
The source told reporters on Sunday that the gang leader
identified as Kelly Fotor told the police that the robbery was carried out by a
combination of two gangs from Lagos and Delta states. He said Fotor told the
police that after the Thursday robbery, he divided the N28m between the two
gangs before returning to his base in Sapele.
The Ogun State Police spokesperson, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi,
confirmed the arrest. He added that weapons were recovered from the suspects as
efforts were on to get other members of the gang.
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