HOW TO CARRY OUT A SUCCESSFUL BANK ROBBERY* FOUR POLICEMEN, BANK OFFICIALS ARRESTED

The suspected bank robbers

This shouldn’t shock anymore! They'll never be   a successful bank robbery without insiders’ connection. Yep! The bankers who work in the targeted bank. And naturally, you have to settle or play ball with the security men who are supposed to guard the banks or bullion vans if you  seriously desire to get your hands on those wands of money.

The former Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, when he was the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, urged banking institutions to constitute a committee whereby prospective staff's background would be checked, dating back to their university days.
He said bank robbery could be curtailed by knowing the sort of person your staff is/was. 
I absolutely agreed. But did the banking community obey?
Nope! I don’t think so. Thus, they'll continue to be  targets of robbers and unscrupulous workers in their establishment.

Anyway, four policemen and some bank officials were among those arrested in connection with the robbery attack of a bullion van,  at Elemoso village in Ondo East Local Government Area of Ondo State.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Isaac Eke, said the preliminary investigations carried out by the police on the robbery pointed to conspiracy among the bank officials, the policemen and the suspected armed robbers.
The bullion van, with registration number FST 954 AL and its escort with registration number PF 3444 SPY belonging to United Bank for Arica (UBA), were attacked on November 20.
The bullion van was coming from Ondo town where it loaded cash and on its way to Akure, the state capital, to discharge the money when it ran into an ambush laid by the armed robbers.
The robbers deflated the tyres of the vehicles and forcibly brought them to a halt along the major road. The source said the armed robbers disarmed the policemen, shot the bullion van, forced the safe of the van open, emptied the cash in the vehicle and escaped through Ile-Oluji Road. But Eke faulted the robbery theory, saying all evidences at his disposal pointed to conspiracy.
The commissioner added that the driver of the escort did not come to the department of operation at the police headquarters to ask for specific number of policemen to follow the bullion van, neither did the policemen got necessary approval before embarking on the trip.
He said: “Special escort has specific guidelines to be complied with. What was used was not a bullion van in the real sense of it. The driver did not come officially to request for escort. How he handpicked the policemen is only known to him. The escort is faulted. If it was normal robbery operation, one of them would have been gunned down. The policemen came back to the station on their own.”