Kogi bank robbery: Bank mgts should also ensure that there is no discrimination between banks in the rural areas and those in the urban centres. They should all be equally fortified as the former are now targets of criminals. PoliceNG LugardHouse
They robbed a first generation bank and attacked the town’s police station. By the time the dust settled on the macabre show, eight police personnel – five men and three women – and some civilians had been felled.
Two much blood had been spilled through mindless bank robberies. In virtually all of the deleterious adventures, police personnel guarding those banks were always the target of the criminals for obvious reasons, and many of them had unfortunately been wasted this way. These robberies, according to the confession of a Boko Haram commander, Umar Abdulmalik, were carried out to source funds to procure what he called “advanced explosives”, with which Abuja and other parts of the North were attacked then.
“Our open arms,” he was quoted in a statement, “are no invitation to criminals. Our first responsibility as a government is to ensure security of lives and property in the state. Those who man police stations too must ensure that their stations are not vulnerable for bandits to wreak such havoc without any of the criminals being brought down.
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