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, Samuel Adegbuyi, who paraded the robbery suspects with 27 others before journalists in Benin on Wednesday, 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.
“On 26/03/2015, the command received information that some robbery gang had attacked some banks and police stations at Owo in Ondo state where unspecified amount of money, arms and ammunition were carted away by the hoodlums,” he said.
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.
credit: http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/04/01/edo-police-parade-owo-bank-robbery-suspect/