Ikorodu robbers planned the operation in 30 minutes… and there was no woman leader

Even in movies, it takes days for an operation to be planned and carried out successfully.

You make the plans, review it, sleep on it and do a head count/revision the morning after.

But for these guys, all that took was just about 30 minutes and they [near] successfully robbed a bank of N80 million.

Though four people were arrested, it is actually a 12 member gang and all were recruited from the Niger Delta region.

But the robbery itself, which lasted for two hours, was carried out by an 18-man gang and had no woman amongst them.

One of the suspects who ironically studied Christian Religious Studies in school, Bright, described how the operation went.

The 25-year-old said, “Million is our leader. I was introduced to the gang by a friend named Akpan. I joined because I had no means of feeding my family. I am a wood logger, but business has been bad. Akpan took me to the gang’s meeting same day of the operation, on June 24, at Abule Ishawo area of Ikorodu”.

“Those of us from Lagos included myself, M. O., Kelvin, S. K. Careboy and Million, while the rest were recruited from Warri, Delta State, by Million. He also brought eight rifles and two pump action guns from Warri, including the two operational vehicles. He taught us how to aim at our targets during the meeting, which lasted 30 minutes, with each of us instructed on what to do on reaching the venue”.

“My role was to stand outside, with one of the pump action guns, shooting sporadically. I was also instructed to shoot at anyone who dared to intrude, while the boys recruited from Warri confronted the police. I had over 900 cartridges. At the end of the operation, we escaped in a fibre boat and went to the creeks, where the loot was shared”.

“At the creeks, we analysed the operation and Million said we did well, promising to use us for subsequent operations. I was not allowed to go near where the money was counted. Million and other leaders counted the money. But Akpan told me they got N80 million”.

“I was given N2 million. I bought a Lexus SUV for N1.5 million and I gave my wife N30,000 to enrol for an exam. I also gave some of my friends out of it and also bought jerry cans for my brother, who is a pipeline vandal. Million instructed those from Warri to set the operational vehicles ablaze before leaving the scene. That was after the numbers plates were removed”.

“He collected the cost of the cars from the loot before sharing the rest among us. That was my first time of joining them. I did not go with them to the Lekki and Ijede banks operations.”

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