LAGOS JULY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)- Four suspects implicated in the Agbor bank robbery have escaped from police custody in Asaba, Delta State capital.
It was gathered that the suspects, who were detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID), disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
A key Anti-Robbery Section official is said to have been removed from office. It is not known whether his removal is connected with the robbers’ escape. The suspects were part of a 10-man gang implicated in the robbery on June 21.
The police arrested four of them, following a tip-off.
It was learnt that three junior officers took the four suspects to Agbor, ostensibly, to search their hide-out after making an entry at the CID’s booking office of the CID.
A source said: “The officers returned to the headquarters without the suspects with the flimsy excuse that the suspects escaped after overpowering them.” It was learnt that the investigating officers had been penciled down for in-house trial of the police tagged: Orderly Room.
Police spokesman Lucky Uyabeme neither confirmed nor denied the allegations.
Source: Nation