The
alleged leader of the notorious gang of bank robbers, Clement Abanara, was
arrested by the police in an apartment at the Osayande Estate over the weekend
according to the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response
Team, IRT in Benin, Edo State.
It
was gathered that the suspect, also known as 'Million', allegedly took part in
the Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbara bank robberies in Lagos where his gang
made away with millions of naira, destroyed several vehicles and left several
persons injured, including policemen and a pregnant woman, dead.
The
IRT, led by CSP Abba Kyari, had in November 2015, launched a manhunt for the
bank robbers.
Kelly
Fotor, one of the suspects arrested at a wedding in Sapele, Delta State last
year, told Vanguard that Million is an experienced kidnapper, who has over
eight rifles in his possession and disguises as a woman during operations.
Million
was once declared wanted by Lagos State former Commissioner of Police, Umar
Manko, in December 2012, after he led a four-man gang of kidnappers to abduct
former Majority Leader of Lagos State House of Assembly, Tofeeq Adeniji, in
Lagos, and took him through the rivers to Delta State, where he demanded N30
million as ransom.
Four
members of the gang arrested with one of their financiers by men of the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, took the operatives to a mansion built by
Million, but met the house empty.
A source told Vanguard that the operatives
trailed Million’s wife to Warri Delta State, where she was arrested before taking
the police to Benin, where her husband was arrested in a rented apartment.
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