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.
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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.
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“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.
[PM News]
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