Published On: Fri, Oct 16th, 2015

FESTAC Banks Robbery: Area ‘E’ Commander, Frank Mba Transfer to Oshogbo

Frank Mba

Frank Mba


LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No doubt the recent bank robbery incident in FESTAC, Lagos State has started taking his tolls as report monitored in CKN Nigeria an online medium alleged that the Area ‘E’ Commander which is in charge of security in FESTAC territory, Mr Frank Mba, an Assistant Commissioner of Police was queried and immediately transferred to Oshogbo in Osun State as a result of the incident.
His redeployment was reportedly sent by Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase.
A query was reportedly issued on Wednesday to the mobile policemen guarding the banks.
Lagos state Police spokesman Jospeh Offor said he was not aware of Mba’s query and transfer transfer.
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone II, Bala Hassan, yesterday decried the lack of an intelligence gathering system in the service.
The police chief blamed civilians for not providing the police with information. He said some people would have been aware of the criminals’ plans before they struck.
Hassan spoke during his inspection visit to FESTAC Town.
The AIG, who said there would have been more disaster if the police had not engaged the criminals, assured that the Force would arrest and prosecute the hoodlums.
Hassan said: “It is our duty to ensure that the criminals are brought to justice within the shortest possible time. That is the only way the hearts of Lagosians will be at peace. We must do our best to stop a repeat.
“You can equip them (Marine Police), but there is no way you can cover the vulnerable areas. Therefore, there is need for us to be on guard and ensure that we cooperate with other security agencies and the public to get information that could stop their operations.”
“They (criminals) must have gone to a drinking joint; somebody would have seen them. If you had reported to the Commissioner of Police that you saw some people in suspicious manner, drinking and planning a robbery operation, they would have been arrested.
“We must increase our level of intelligence to make sure that this thing does not happen again. That the robbers were in military uniform does not mean they were uniform men; the purpose of that was to create an atmosphere of intimidation so that they would carry out their operation.
“If we had followed the way they (robbers) did, there would have been a lot of causalities, because this is a built-up area – from the bank and the neighbouring community.
“The important thing now is for the robbers to be arrested and brought to justice.”

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