“We Needed Money To Celebrate Christmas” – Bank Robbers (Photo)

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Policemen attached to Ilasamaja division have arrested two suspected
members of a robbery syndicate that specialised in attacking customers,
who had gone to withdraw money from banks at Sadiku/ Ilasamaja, along
the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, Lagos.

The syndicate which usually operate on motorcycle positioned themselves along the service lane, awaiting their victims.

Following
several complaints of attacks, the Lagos State Police Command boss, Mr
Edgal Imohimi, directed 24 hours surveillance around the banks and
others along the expressway.

Vanguard gathered that immediately a
male customer who had gone to withdraw N350,000 stepped out of one of
the banks at about 2pm , Friday, the suspects: Boniface Ewerem(46) and
Joseph,(42) ordered him to bring the money, pointing a gun at him.

One
of them according to eye witnesses fired a shot into the air as he
snatched the money from the customer and zoomed off in their operational
motorbike.

Luck, however, ran against them as policemen from
Ilasamaja chased and caught up with them. Angry members of the community
requested that the suspects be handed over to them with an apparent
intent to carry out jungle justice on them.

Explaining how they
were arrested, one of the residents, Ayiola Ganiu, said “The attacked
customer raised the alarm which alerted us. Everyone chased them. They
abandoned their motorbike and ran across the express, inward Soaps,
unknown to them that there was a police station on that side. Policemen
at Ilasamaja division, led by their DPO, joined in the chase until they
were caught.

“If the Police had not intervened, the robbers would
have been lynched because they have sent many lives to oremature
deaths. We wanted them to serve as deterrents to their colleagues.

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