Police Open Up On Reports Of N20m Ekiti Robbery

The police in Ekiti have called for calm following reports that N20million cash was snatched from civil servants in the Cabinet Department of the Governor’s Office.

The report had shocked panic among civil servants with many apparently fearful that it would affect their entitlements.

It was alleged that the civil servants, who were accountants attached to the Cabinet Department of the governor’s office, were said to have withdrawn the cash belonging to the government at a new generation bank before they were robbed at gunpoint.

It was further alleged that the robbers waylaid them at a place between the Chicken Republic and Fajuyi Park, and dispossessed them of the huge cash.

The robbers it was further claimed that the robbers shot into the air

The robbers were said to have shot into the air sporadically as they escaped through the GRA to Ilawe road.

However, rebuffing the claims of the state Police Commissioner, Babatunde Mobayo, enjoined the citizenry cautioning them that “such fabricated and misleading false alarm aimed at causing unnecessary apprehension.”

In the statement issued by the Ekiti command spokesman, ASO

Mobayo, in a statement signed by the Command spokesman, ASP Sunday Abutu, said: “For clarity, the incident that occurred today (Wednesday) in Ado-Ekiti was about a driver of a Toyota Corolla car with about three other occupants who were accosted by a group of yet-to-be-identified hoodlums and dispossessed them of some amount of money.

“Upon the receipt of the information, the Commander of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) led his operatives to the scene but by then, the hoodlums had fled the scene already.

“However, some persons have been invited by the police for interrogation and further investigation while serious effort is ongoing to arrest the fleeing suspects.”

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