The suspect, Tunde, told the police that Olagoke Dare was the brains behind the robbery.
Olagoke Dare, a staff member of a microfinance bank in Abeokuta, has been arrested for planning his robbery. File photo used to illustrate story.
It was gathered that the police at Ibara divisional headquarters arrested the suspect after receiving a distress call that armed robbers had attacked one Olagoke Dare and Mary Agbejo while leaving a commercial bank at Oke-Ilewo area in Ogun State. The Divisional Police Officer of Ibara division, SP Segun Ajao was said to have mobilised his men to the scene and arrested one Idowu Tunde.He said Dare had told him that his employer would be sending him and one other person to withdraw the N3 million and wanted him to rob them of the money. He confessed that while Dare and his colleague were in the bank, he had hidden in their car which was deliberately left open by Dare.
Tunde said when Dare and his colleague returned to the car, from the back seat, he pointed the toy gun at the lady who was with the money. She also raised an alarm which attracted passersby to the scene. Ogun State Police Command, spokesperson DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident, said the acting commissioner of police, DCP Abiodun Alamutu has ordered the immediate transfer of the two suspects to the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.
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