Agbor robbery: More bank staff arrested

MORE staff of the first generation bank raided last Friday by robbers have been arrested and are currently being interrogated along with policemen posted on guard duty that day, state police command’s spokesman, Mr. Lucky Uyabeme, has said.

Speaking with newsmen in Asaba, Uyabeme said: “Yes we have some of the staff but it depends on the weight of evidence, investigation is on.”

He declined to give the exact number of staff arrested so far apart from the Operations Manager earlier mentioned, saying that investigation would prove whether they are innocent or not.

Also, policemen posted on guard duty have since been  arrested and also currently facing ‘orderly room trial’ at the state police headquarters, Asaba.

Meantime, bank officials are trading words with the police over  the incident.

This came as fresh facts emerged that policemen were nowhere to be found during the robbery that lasted less than 10 minutes.

PPRO Uyabeme while maintaining that it was an inside job had earlier said, that “preliminary investigation revealed an insider connection with the bank robbery as the two keys to the strong room that were supposed to be kept by two different senior staff were left with the Operations Manager who in turn left the strong room open.

“The four bullet proof doors were not tampered with. One of the senior staff of the bank  supposed to be with one of the keys to the strong room purported to be sick, handed over the keys.”
 
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