The suspect, identified as
Kelly Fotor, an Ijaw native of Arugbo, Ondo State, was arrested last Saturday
by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response
Team, SIRT, at a wedding ceremony in Sapele, Delta State.
Leader of the dreaded gang
of bank robbers which had been terrorising commercial banks in Lagos and Ogun
states in military uniforms has disclosed that his gang never intended to kill
nine officials of the Department of State Service, DSS, who went missing last
September.
The suspect, who was at the
ceremony with some armed men, had a gun duel with the operatives which led to
the killing of one of the policemen, while Fotor and three of his colleagues,
were arrested with bullet wounds.
It was gathered that the
SIRT operatives, led by CSP, Abba Kyari, who had been on the trail of the gang,
trailed Fotor to the wedding ceremony after their last operation at Agbara area
of Ogun State where they robbed a bank and left three persons, including a
pregnant woman, dead.
Fotor, who sustained a
bullet wound during the shootout, while he was being transported for treatment said
that he was the leader of the South South group of the gang.
He explained that the gang
also had a Lagos leader who he identified as Ossy, adding that his gang was
made up of 12 men, including himself, with bases in Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa and
Ondo states.
Fotor also said his gang
normally teamed up with their Lagos group for operations, disclosing that he
and his gang were formerly into sea piracy before teaming up with Ossy.
Ossy is the leader of the
pipeline vandals at Arepo and Ikorodu areas.
Fotor also said he and his
men took part in the Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbra bank robberies, adding
that they made N28 million from Agbara bank robbery.
“I and my group got N14
million share from the Agbara operation, while, Ossy and his group got N14
million. I left Lagos by waters that day after that operation with my men back
to Igbokoda, Ondo State, where we shared the money and everyone got his share
of the loot.
‘’It was Ossy’s men who
usually pick out our targets. They were the ones who picked out all the
targets, my job was to give support and my boat is very big and my boat boy is
a professional and knows his way around the water very well,” he stated
The woman in the group, he
explained that there was no woman in the gang.
He, however, said it was
one of Ossy’s boys who normally dressed like a woman during operations.
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