THE police in Lagos State have arrested seven people in connection with
the March 13 armed robbery operation at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport.
Eighteen officers of the Lagos State
Special Anti Robbery Squad, who burst the armed robbery gang, have been
commended by the Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar.
A
cache of arms and ammunition including five AK 47, four dynamites, two
locally made pistols, 64 AK 47 riffle magazines, all fully loaded with
thirty rounds, totaling 1,920 live ammunition and assorted charms were
recovered from the gang.
The police also recovered a Toyota
Sienna space wagon bus with the registration no BDG 918 AG, which served
as the operational vehicle as well as the armoury of the gang.
The
state police boss, Umar Manko, while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday,
said the arrested suspects were apprehended in Ogun, Oyo, Osun and
other neighbouring states.
The gang was also allegedly said to be
responsible for a similar operation at the airport, when about N600,000
was carted away by the bandits.
Manko gave the names of the
arrested armed robbers as Ibikunle Olanrewaju, Toba Adeniyi, Ibraheem
Abdullai, Kazeem Aderibigbe, Saheed Adekunle, Christian Joshua and
Saheed Okunola.
He said “all the suspects confessed to the armed
robberies at the airport and several other deadly robberies in Lagos,
Ogun, Ondo and Kwara states. “
The Lagos police boss listed some
of the robbery operations of the gang to include the robberies at the
Oro, Kwara State branches of FirstBank and Union Bank in January 2013,
FirstBank and Wema Bank robberies in Ikirun, Osun State in December 2012
and the bullion van robbery in Odogbolu, Ogun State in January 2013 as
well as the robbery at MMIA in February, 2012.
One of the
arrested suspects, Ibraheem Abdullai, was identified as a trolley pusher
at the airport and he was allegedly provided the armed robbers with the
information with which the robbery operations were executed.
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