{"id":5569,"date":"2013-06-26T19:25:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T19:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/bank-staff-arrested-for-robbery\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T19:25:05","slug":"bank-staff-arrested-for-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/bank-staff-arrested-for-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank staff arrested for robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH\/Kano<\/strong><\/p>\n Robert Olusegun, a staff of a new generation bank who waylaid a customer and robbed him of N4.7 million was among 273 armed robbery suspects arrested by the Police Command in Kano, northwest Nigeria.<\/p>\n According to the state Commissioner of Police, Musa Daura who briefed the press at the Command headquarters on Wednesday, Robert conspired with one other person now at large and attacked a customer of the bank where he worked with a pistol and knife on his way to the bank to deposit the money.<\/p>\n \u201cThey robbed him of the sum of N4, 755, 200.00. The suspects were vigorously pursued by members of the community and Robert was arrested with the money. One revolver pistol loaded with three live ammunitions and a knife were recovered from him. Investigation is on top gear to arrest the fleeing suspect,\u201d Daura stated.<\/p>\n The Command also smashed a kidnapping syndicate at Rogo Local Government Area where the held two worker s at Sorey Construction Company and demanded for ransom, \u201cthey were arrested on the spot by the Police, suspects have been charged to Court for prosecution,\u201d Daura added.<\/p>\n Another suspect, Opheke Michael was arrested along Aba road, Sabon Gari while in possession of 63 units of N1000 notes discovered to be counterfeit.<\/p>\n Also, the Police boss stated that Sa\u2019adu Abdullahi of Badawa Quarters and Ismaila Ishaq of Kaugama in Jigawa state confessed to the Police to have plotted to vandalize pipelines, adding that they were in possession of one Toyota Camry, reasonably suspected to have been stolen and they were carrying with them, one pumping machine, one electric generator, two rolls of hose and other implements primed for pipeline vandalisation.<\/p>\n