Duke Odogbo, one of the four armed robbers recently arrested
by the police in connection with the Lekki bank robbery in
March, says he was given N500,000 from the N15 million they
stole from the bank. The four robbers, Duke Odogbo, 38;
Lawrence Kingsley, 31; Ebi Tosan, 20, & Ekelemo Kuete, 30 were
paraded before newsmen at the Lagos state police command
headquarters in Ikeja today.
"I was invited by a friend from Warri, Delta State, to come
for bunkering job. But on reaching Lagos, I was told it
was a bank robbery. I told them I was into bunkering and
not robbery. But because they told me we were going to
make much money from it, I decided to join them. On the
day of the operation, we left Tarkwa Bay at about 4.30
p.m., in two boats; with 11 persons on each. But one of
the boats developed fault on the way.
We all entered the good one. We got to the bank few
minutes after 5p.m. Immediately we left the canal, some
of us went to the road and started firing, thereby making
way for those of us that would go inside. I led the team
that went in. We were all putting on Army camouflage. I
shattered the entrance glass with bullets and when we
got inside, we demanded for the money realized for that
day. The manager told us they did not make much. But
we broke into one of their strong rooms where we got
some money. We also broke into two ATM boxes, but
there was no money in either of them. We told ourselves
that the operation must not exceed 40 minutes. To my
surprise, by the time we were leaving, I discovered that
my colleagues were with seven extra rifles. When I
asked, they said they saw some policemen in a van,
concluded they were there for us and shot at them. I was
not the one that shot the policemen. I did not kill anyone.
It was when we got to the forest, located in an island in
Ikorodu that we discovered that the amount stolen was
N15 million and I got N500,000. I used my share to boost
my bunkering business." he said
Items recovered from the suspects were a 2008 model Honda
Accord car purchased by one of the suspects from his share of
the loot, one military face cap used during the operation,a white
blackberry Z10 phone, an Apple iphone 5 and 120 expended
ammunition.
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