KOGI ROBBERY
A group, the League of Concerned Professionals, has raised the alarm over an alleged attempt by unnamed politicians to scuttle the ongoing probe into the June 4 bank robbery in Isanlu, Kogi State.
No fewer than eight policemen and other residents were killed during the bloody attack on a first generation bank in the town.
But the LCP from Kogi West Senatorial Zone alleged that politicians linked to the robbers were working to jeopardize the police investigations into the incident.
The group said this in a statement titled ‘IGP, Please Checkmate Desperate Kogi Politicians Whose Gangsters Robbed First Bank in Isanlu,’ jointly signed by the LCP President, Moruf Abdulrahman and the Secretary, Leke Ishola.
It alleged that police operatives had traced some of the money looted from the Kogi bank to another bank in Abeokuta while another team of policemen had apprehended some of the gangsters who used the illegal weapons given to them by politicians during the last elections in Kogi state.
The statement read, “Unless this matter is properly investigated, the lives of many police officers and other citizens are at stake as no one knows who could be shot or killed tomorrow through the use of these illegal weapons that few politicians have put into the wrong hands.”
“It is in this regard that we passionately appeal to the Inspector-General of Police not to allow the police DPO, seven other policemen and one passerby killed by the dastardly criminals to die in vain,” the LCP said.
