A policeman and another civilian
were on Thursday injured when dynamite exploded at the branch of a commercial
bank in Okeho, a town in Oyo State.
It was gathered that some
armed robbers had on Wednesday attacked the bank. Three of the armed robbers
were set ablaze by some youths in the town.
The Public Relations Officer of the
state Police Command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, who confirmed the explosion of the
dynamite, said that the armed robbers blew off the security door of the bank
open with dynamite. After gaining entry, they went for the strong room and made
away with some cash.
He said that the Commissioner of
Police, Joe Enwonwu visited the bank on Thursday in order to assess the level
of damages.
Fadeyi added that a mammoth crowd
of angry residents who have gathered at the bank, requested him to release the
arrested armed robbers to them in order to set them ablaze, but Enwonwu
refused.
Fadeyi said the crowd remained
with the policemen who had gone there to examine the equipment still left in
the bank’s premises and also assess the extent of damage.
He said the CP appealed to the
crowd to maintain a good distance to allow his men examine the premises but
that they remained adamant.
New dynamite exploded in the
process, injuring a police man and a member of the angry crowd.
Fadeyi said some of the mob
attempted to attack the police but that the CP ordered his men to leave the
scene to prevent the situation from degenerating to physical attacks.
He said: “The CP went early this
morning for on-the-spot assessment of the robbery incident. He saw the suspects
burnt near the bank’s gate. He discovered that four people were burnt. The
security post of the bank shattered with dynamite while a police sergeant was
shot dead by the bandits. The CP entered and assessed everywhere. They took
cash from the strong room but we can’t ascertain the actual amount.
“Then, police moved outside to
assess other areas. The mammoth crowd still gathered. The mob wanted police to
release the arrested two suspects to them but police refused. In the process,
the mob attacked police, injuring one of our men. Police asked them to move
away to give room for assessment but they did not respond.
“As our men were examining the
premises with mob gathered near them, new dynamite exploded and injured one of
them. Then they attacked police and injured one of our men. It was an
aggressive mammoth crowd. They immediately left Okeho before it degenerated to
confrontation.”
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