Clement Abanara, aka
Millions, 42, coordinator and is the brain behind most of the high bank
robberies and high profile kidnapping in Lagos and Ogun States for over 20
years has been arrested.
He was arrested on
Thursday in Asayande Estate Benin City by the Inspector General of Police
Special Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) .
All the suspects, arrested
in connection with the different bank robberies in Lagos and Ogun states,
fingered Millions. But he had remained elusive for months, evading police
arrest.
Millions has been
described by many eye witnesses as a ‘female ‘member of the gang. He used to
braid his hair and is said to be skinny. During operations, he used to lead the
gang and usually wears gun belts.
He was arrested after
detectives who had been tracking him, first located his wife in Warri, Delta
State.
The wife led the police
team to his new house in Benin City.
A police source said: “He
is the most experienced person among the bank robbers and the coordinator of
the Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbarra bank robberies. He dresses as a
woman during all the bank robberies. Millions was also the leader of a
kidnapping gang that kidnapped a Lagos State House of Assembly member and
many other prominent citizens in Lagos two years ago.”
The source said that
Millions and his gang’s modus operandi were to come from Delta State into Lagos
State through water.
They would anchor in
Akodo or Ikorodu axis, and then kidnap their victims in Lagos. After they had
kidnapped a victim, they would move back through water to their camp in Delta
State and there after family members would go and pay ransom in Delta State
before victims were released to them in Warri.
“The IGP’s SIRT arrested
four of Millions boys in 2013 and stormed his house in Warri, but he had fled.
They offered the IG’s team N10m, but they refused. They wanted the team to
charge them to court through a senior police officer, but the team turned down
the offer,” said the source.
The source added said that
it was probably the highly uncompromising posture and action of the SIRT’s that
deterred Millions and his men from coming to Lagos through water, to
continue his kidnapping spree of innocent citizens. The police have also
discovered that last year,
Millions teamed up with
one OSSY and TK to fine tune bank robberies in Lagos and Ogun states.
Operatives of SIRT, a day
after Christmas, were deployed to Port Harcourt still on the hunt of the bank
robbers.
A key member of the Festac
and Agbarra bank robberies was arrested.
The name of the suspect is
Dennis Njiku, 30.
It was gathered that Njiku
has allegedly confessed to participating in Both Festac and Agbarra bank
robberies.
Njiku further reportedly
said: “We got N110m in Festac bank robbery. I got N2.5m as my share. I
got N 1.2m as my share in the Agbara bank robbery.”
The police said that the
suspect was assisting the SIRT operatives in tracing other fleeing members
within Port Harcourt and Warri Delta State.
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