Police Arrest Four Suspects, Recovers N7.5m in Osun Bank Robbery...
The Nigeria police in Osun state have finally arrested the armed robbers who killed civilians during robbery in Skye Bank, First Bank and Union Bank last Friday..
The Osun bank robbers.
Police have made progress in the deadly armed robbery attack that took place in Osun state after arresting four suspected members of the robbery gang which raided some commercial banks in ikirun on Friday.
A gang of armed robbers had invaded Skye Bank, First Bank and Union Bank branches on Friday evening killing two bank officials.
These was revealed in a statement by the Commissioner of police, Mr Kola Sodipo on Sturday. He said the command lost two of its policemen during a gun duel with members of the gang who had earlier killed two officials of the banks they raided. He also revealed that the police recovered N7.5 million Naira as well as arms and ammunition from the gang after engaging them in a gun battle.
The names of the arrested suspects are Aderibigbe Oluwaseun, 23, Ndubusi David, 21, Ayuba Salisu, 26 and Nuhu Jimoh, 21. Sodipo said the police were able to counter the armed robbers because of the armored personal carriers provided by the Osun state Government which assisted the police in killing four of the armed robbers and he said four of the armed robbers were arrested.
"Swift response by the police repelled the attack," he said,
He added that three AK riffles with 124 rounds of ammunition, one assault rifles with 12 rounds live ammunition, expended shells of ammunition and dynamite were also recovered. Sodipo said that one standby Nissan sunny car which the robbers wanted to use for escape was also recovered.
"A diligent investigation is ongoing for the arrest of the syndicate members," Sodipo said.
Source: Vanguard.
The Osun bank robbers.
Police have made progress in the deadly armed robbery attack that took place in Osun state after arresting four suspected members of the robbery gang which raided some commercial banks in ikirun on Friday.
A gang of armed robbers had invaded Skye Bank, First Bank and Union Bank branches on Friday evening killing two bank officials.
These was revealed in a statement by the Commissioner of police, Mr Kola Sodipo on Sturday. He said the command lost two of its policemen during a gun duel with members of the gang who had earlier killed two officials of the banks they raided. He also revealed that the police recovered N7.5 million Naira as well as arms and ammunition from the gang after engaging them in a gun battle.
The names of the arrested suspects are Aderibigbe Oluwaseun, 23, Ndubusi David, 21, Ayuba Salisu, 26 and Nuhu Jimoh, 21. Sodipo said the police were able to counter the armed robbers because of the armored personal carriers provided by the Osun state Government which assisted the police in killing four of the armed robbers and he said four of the armed robbers were arrested.
"Swift response by the police repelled the attack," he said,
He added that three AK riffles with 124 rounds of ammunition, one assault rifles with 12 rounds live ammunition, expended shells of ammunition and dynamite were also recovered. Sodipo said that one standby Nissan sunny car which the robbers wanted to use for escape was also recovered.
"A diligent investigation is ongoing for the arrest of the syndicate members," Sodipo said.
Source: Vanguard.
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