One of the March 12, Lekki Bank Robbers has been arrested, he explains his role.

 

You remember the robbery that took place in Lekki where three men of Nigeria Police Force  and a female fish hawker were shot dead? A man suspected to be one of the robbers that robbed a bank in Lekki has been apprehended.

The suspect called, Ekelemo Kuete, said he was given N50,000.00 for his role in the robbery.

Ekelemo Kuete, hails from Ondo State, hear what he said

 ” We were 15 in number that went for that operation and we used two speed boats. Five of us stayed back in the boat at Lekki while the other 10 went inside the bank. When they killed the policemen and two other civilians I queried them but they didn’t listen.”

“I am the speed boat driver that took the armed robbery gang to Lekki on March 12, 2015”. I didn’t want to go, they forced me, and after the operation, they gave me N50,000. I have not gone for robbery operation before now; I am into oil bunkering in Arepo along Lagos Ibadan expressway, a community in Ogun state. I know they were robbers when the contracted me to use my speed boat to convey them through the waterways to Lekki. I make money from oil bunkering between N50,000- N80,000 each time I go to work