{"id":774849,"date":"2020-01-01T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/01\/banker-led-abuja-bank-robbery-suspect-confesses\/"},"modified":"2020-01-01T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:35:17","slug":"banker-led-abuja-bank-robbery-suspect-confesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/01\/banker-led-abuja-bank-robbery-suspect-confesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Banker Led Abuja Bank Robbery, Suspect Confesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_734334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-734334\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-734334\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Abuja-Robbery_-Banker-others-arrested-one-killed-in-failed-First-Bank-robbery-Video-lailasnews-758x442.jpg\" alt=\"Bank robbers \" width=\"750\" height=\"437\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-734334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abuja bank robbers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elijah David, a robbery suspect, has confessed that Larry Ehizo, an employee of First Bank of Nigeria, Mpape area of Abuja, led his gang to rob the bank.<\/p>\n<p>The armed robbers were arrested on Saturday following a failed attempt to rob the bank\u00a0 \u2014 they were trapped in the bank by security team of police officers and soldiers who had laid siege to the bank, as one of the robbers who tried to escape was shot dead.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking when they were paraded by the police on Tuesday, the suspect said Ehizo informed him and his gang that they could get as much as N7 million from the failed heist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Armed Robbers Trapped Inside Abuja Bank As Police, Army Block Entrance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEhizo told us that the job could fetch about N7m. After we entered the bank, we saw a riot policeman on duty but sleeping, so Obinna pointed a pistol at him and we tied him with an old sponge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Larry told us that he would keep the other door open for us. So, Larry and Obinna later went upstairs with a pair of pliers to disconnect the CCTV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn our way out, Larry suddenly shouted, \u2018Ah, the MOPOL has escaped\u2019; then, I ran inside and all of us scattered. I didn\u2019t know what to do. Then the police began firing teargas into the premises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another suspect, Princewill Obinna, said the banker told them that the robbery would not take more than 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Larry told us there that there was a deal he wanted us to execute and that it would not take more than 10 to 15 minutes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said the bank would not operate on Saturdays and that if we could come around, he would help us to get the money out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the banker said he was blackmailed into the robbery by one Ernest, a customer of the bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErnest is a customer of the bank and that is where we got to know each other, because I work in the customer service unit of the bank,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a place I used to drink, that\u2019s where he works as a barman. He told me to tell the gang members how to get inside, show them where the CCTV was and that I should show them where the police officer on duty would be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we drove into the bank, he even called me, because he was across the bank. He said I should just do as agreed and out of fear, I said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bala Ciroma, FCT police commissioner, said four locally-made guns, one Peugeot 206, two cutlasses, two daggers, one axe, a pair of pliers and one Infinix Note phone were recovered from the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja bank robbers Elijah David, a robbery suspect, has confessed that Larry Ehizo, an employee of First Bank of Nigeria, Mpape area of Abuja, led his gang to rob the bank. 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