The Police in Benin have paraded a 35-year-old man, Etopa Sadiq, in connection with the violent bank robbery carried out on 26 March, 2015, at Owo, Ondo state.
Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Samuel Adegbuyi, who paraded the robbery suspects with 27 others before journalists in Benin, said the suspect was arrested at Ibilo, in Akoko-Edo local government area of the state after a gun battle between operatives of the Command and the suspected bank robbers.
Adegbuyi further explained that after the robbery operation, the hoodlums headed towards Ibilo in Edo State where police operatives of the command intercepted them in a gun battle which made some of them to flee and abandoned various arms and ammunition carted away from the attacked police stations in Owo.
He announced that one suspect, Etopa Sadiq, was arrested and that efforts were on top gear to arrest the fleeing suspects.
Items recovered from the fleeing robbery suspects include seven AK47 assault riffles, three Riot gunners, two SMG guns, two Lar riffles, 4 T06 riffles, one Scorpion rifle, one Berretta rifle, one Chief Revolver pistol, two Pump Action guns and one Tarsser rifle.
Also recovered were police uniforms, computer set, assorted rifle magazines and cartridges, Police Crash helmets, Decoder, International passport, Audi Station Waggon car and others.
Sadiq, who suffered a fracture on his right arm from gunshot, however denied being an armed robber, but said he was a victim of stray bullet from the scene of the robbery.
