The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested eight persons, including a serving Permanent Secretary in Ondo State over the raid of a commercial bank in Ikere Ekiti last Thursday.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Victor
Babayemi, who gave the hint in Ado-Ekiti, the state
capital on Saturday, said the Permanent Secretary
and others were arrested in a bush at Ijare, a border
The Branch Manager of the bank, Ikere was also
reportedly arrested following the incident.
According to the police, the Permanent Secretary and
three others were arrested while performing rituals
at night in the bush through which the robbery
bandits escaped.
The armed gang had stormed a first generation bank
at about 5.30 p.m killing two persons and injuring
two others during a gun battle with the men of the
Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
The PPRO said the Permanent Secretary and the
three others were arrested at about 3 a.m by the
police. Babayemi said the men were arrested with a live goat and other fetish materials, adding that they
would have been mistaken for robbers.
“During the operation, we saw the Permanent
Secretary and seven others in white apparel
performing rituals, so we had to arrest them to
explain their mission at the place at that unholy
hour”.
The PPRO said those arrested are being interrogated
with vital information being obtained.
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