Full Story Of How The FCBN Ikeja Robbery Happened

Six persons including three mobile
policemen were killed and several others
seriously injured during the incident
which happened on Lekki-Ikoyi Link
bridge when the rampaging armed
robbers attacked a new generation bank.
Inspector Bethel, indigene of Kwale in
Delta State and father of seven, two other
policemen identified as Sergeant George,
an Urhobo also from Delta State and
Corporal Ikechukwu, a Benin man from
Edo State were the policemen who ran
into the robbery operation..
Security sources told Sunday Sun that the
three policemen, contrary to earlier
reports, were on the escort of some
expatriates from Victoria Island to the
international airport in Ikeja when they
ran into the bandits who had stormed the
bank for robbery operation.
Sunday Sun reliably gathered that the
escort team decided to follow the Lekki-
Ikoyi link bridge because of the usual
heavy traffic on Ozumba Mbadiwe way
with the lead driver who carried the for­
eigners on a Coaster bus leading the way.
The team, it was learnt, ran into two
robbers who were in army camouflage
uniform. They were brandishing a
submachine gun, which a source said uses
ten magazines and an AK47 rifle which
uses double magazines.
The driver who had no inkling of the
danger lurking around was said to have
continued with the journey without taking
any precautions.
“When the entourage got to the second
army check point, which was around the
FCMB bank being robbed at the time,
there were many men in camouflage on
standby as if waiting for someone.
“They allowed the Coaster bus to pass but
immediately opened fire on the right side
of the Hilux Van conveying the police
inspector, a Sergeant and a Corporal. The
Police inspector who was the leader of
the escort and the corporal who sat
directly behind him were hit by bullets
and died instantly.
“Then the first two men in camouflage
left behind began to shoot at the Hilux
Van. The driver who is a civilian stopped
the vehicle, switched off the engine, got
down of the truck, raised his hands and
ran for his dear life. The Sergeant on the
other hand realizing he had been over
powered, got down from the truck
without his ammunition with his hands
raised in the air and attempted to run
away from the vehicle. But the robbers
opened rapid fire on him till they were
sure he was dead,” the source revealed.
Sunday Sun further learnt that the Coaster
bus driver who saw another check point
ahead of him was quick to realize that the
area was too hostile and decided to slow
down.
“One of the robbers fired at the bus but at
that point, two things happened
simultaneously. The driver of the Coaster
bus stopped while a girl selling smoked
fish who was running for her life was hit
by a bullet in her forehead which came
out through the back and damaged the
right side of her head. She fell down in
front of the Coaster bus and died
instantly. Another civilian was hit by a
stray bullet.
Meanwhile, the robbery inside the bank
was said they have been carried out
quickly without any resistance.
“People didn’t know of it because they
felt the men in army camouflage were
there to secure the area.