The
Lagos State Police Command today paraded seven suspected armed robbers
said to have carried out the robbery attack on the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport, MMIA, last month.
A
gang of armed robbers attacked the airport on 13 March, 2013, shot two
policemen dead and made away with millions of dollars stolen from the
Bureau De Change in the airport.
The
police recovered from the suspects five AK 47 rifles, four dynamites,
64 AK 47 Magazines, all fully loaded with 30 rounds totaling 1,920 live
ammunitions, Toyota Siena Space Bus, with registration number BDG 918
AG, two locally made pistols, two masks and several charms.
The
suspects paraded at the Lagos Police Command, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest
Nigeria are Ibikunle Olanrewaju John, Atoba Adeniyi, Ibrahim Abdullahi,
Kazeem Aderibigbe, Saheed Adekunle, Christian Joshua and Saheed Okunola.
Commissioner
of Police, Umar Manko, who paraded the suspects, said the gang was the
one who attacked the Murtala Muhammed International Airport last month
and killed two policemen, saying that the robbers were not based in
Lagos, as they were arrested in Osun and Oyo State.
“All
the suspects confessed to the armed robbery at the MMIA and several
other deadly robberies in Lagos, Ogun, Ondo and Kwara States, such as
the Oro First Bank/Union Bank armed robbery in Kwara State in January
2013; First Bank /Wema Bank armed robbery in Ikirun in Osun State in
December 2012 and the Bullion Van robbery attack at Odogbolu Junction,
on Lagos-Ijebu Ode Expressway in January 2013.
“They
also confess to the armed robbery attack at the MMIA in February 2012
where about N600 million was carted away. Furthermore, the armed robbers
involved in the airport robbery of February 2012 where about N600
million was robbed and the last month MMIA robbery include Teslim
Okunola now late, Kazeem Aderibigbe (the middle man that links the armed
robbers with the informant), Ibrahim Abdullahi, Emmanuel Ehianeta,
Christian Joshua, Saheed Adekunle, Fasasi Jamiu, Ifeanyi Douglas (still
at large), Felix Sunday (still at large), among others,” he explained.
Manko said investigation was still ongoing with a view to arresting the fleeing suspects soonest.
Source: PM News
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