The tale of how of a new generation bank at Akowonjo, Lagos, was robbed last year won’t be complete without the mention of Eboma Onyeka, a Police Sergeant who was at the timeof the incident attached to the Mobile Police Unit 20, at Ikeja.
Onyeka had allegedly conspired with four others, including an employee of the said bankand robbed the bank he was to secure of about N10m in April 2011. A security guard attached to the bank, Sunday Ogundipe, was strangled in the process.
Two months after, Onyeka was arrested, tried and dismissed from the force before he was arraigned with his accomplices on armed robbery and murder charges in July 2011.
However, Onyeka is once again a guest of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos, months after securing his bail. He is said to have been involved in a series of bank ATM robberies since his bail from Kirikiri Prisons in December 2011.
But Onyeka strenuously denied his involvement in any bank robbery attacks and he was quick to give a recap of his activities since his bail from prison.
“After I got my bail, I left Lagos for my village in Delta State. I stayed there for about two, three months because I was ill and needed to recover. When I was fully recovered, l went to Benin City and met a friend whom I pleaded with for assistance. My friend gave me an Audicar to use as a taxi, so I could earn a living. I also underwent a 10-week course in producinginsecticides and fruit juices.
“Upon the completion of my course, I returned to Lagos because I needed to start a business of my own. Since there was no place for me to go, I called a friend of mine who is a serving police inspector and he asked me to see him. My wife had returned to her family with my children after I got into prison, so I had no home in Lagos. All this happened in August 2012. It was the very day that I arrived Lagos that I was arrested by SARS operatives. I still had my toiletries on me,” Onyeka said.
However, the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Mr. Umar Manko, disclosed thatOnyeka was arrested after the spate of bank ATM robberies in Lagos metropolis went up.
He said, “In the months following Onyeka’s bail from prison custody, we started getting reports of bank ATM robberies nearly every weekend. Prior to his arrest last year, there were only two gangs responsible for bank ATM robberies in Lagos: Onyeka’s and another gang. As at the time he went to prison custody, the ATM robberies had reduced to thebarest minimum.
“So when reports of ATM robberies began to come in, we decided to check with the prison to confirm if Onyeka was still in their custody but he wasn’t. We began investigations and we were able to obtain his number. Through his phone number, we were able to track his movements until he got to Lagos and thereafter we rearrested him. His gang was responsible for the recent robbery of a new generation bank where a police corporal lost his life.
“At the time of his arrest, Onyeka had in his possession a fake identity card which portrayed him as a serving member of the Mobile Police Force. When SARS operatives stormed the hotel where he was meeting with a friend, Onyeka had flashed his card to the team, not knowing that he was the target of the raid.”
Findings indicated that Onyeka was granted bail at an Igbosere High Court 14 in December 2011 through a motion on bail application notice. His lawyer, who identified himself as T.J. Ajapuno, said, “In law, everyone is considered innocent until proven otherwise. Onyeka’s wife came to see me, requesting my services so that her husband could get bail and due process was followed. If Onyeka went ahead to start robbing again after his bail was granted, that is his own cup of tea. His wife and his pastor had stood for him as sureties.
“We served the police and the State Criminal Investigative Department at Panti got a copy of the bail application. The Directorate for Public Prosecution got a copy too. I wasn’t even aware that the DPP’s advice was out; I don’t have the facts of the case and the DPP doesn’t even have Onyeka’s file. It is not as if the case is over, the substantive matter is before Justice Okunnu at the Ikeja High Court.”
Since his bail, Onyeka had had no further court appearance. “Although I was in touch with my lawyer and one of his subordinates, they told me that they would contact me if anything came up,” he said.
Before his arrest in July 2011, Onyeka had justcompleted a training course for inspectors andwas awaiting promotion to same rank. Published reports said Onyeka was arrested in his private Hummer Jeep on his way to keeping an appointment with other members of his gang around 1.30 am on July 26, 2011.
Onyeka allegedly had in possession, an AK 47 rifle and a big bag containing a face mask and other suspicious items. Before his dismissal last year, the 41-year-old had served the Nigeria Police Force for 19 years.

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Source please.

Which banks were robbed in Akowonjo last year o? abeg make i hear o

emmanuelogbe: Source please.

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Una no see better criminals to arrest... Criminals with hard evidence pointing to their activities! mtcheeew

Very sharp Police.

Abeg! HAMMER them ROBBERY with Hummer jeep!

Multiple Twenty naira turn into HUMMER JEEP

singing
***Nigeria Jaga jaga

Ihe Neme! This policeman is a rare specie...thank God nemesis caught up with him

Only if man can realise that life is temporamal and evaporative

Pls I nid a picture of the hummer jeep

one bad apple @ super story

make una dey talk true o.Nig police have never made d pple trust them before.

So who do we believe? The police that arrested him based on suspicion due to his antecedents or the man who claims he was just coming into town after a long while? BTW aren't people on bail supposed to restrict their movement to their immediate locality until sentence is passed? From what I understand, this man has not even been sentenced for his first crime. Why then was he even released on bail?

If u're not a criminal....U can't caught a criminal.....98.9% of Nigerian police are criminals/Robbers........
MAY GOD HELP NIJA!

Police wey get hummer, shoo, how im take hammer? Except say in be robber.

People will now start complaining about jungle justice. Why won't there be? D stupid policeman was granted bail 3mnths after his robbery and MANSLAUGHTER. Whatever happened 2 'whoever kills by d sword must die by the sword' or sumthn similar? Dats really unfair. Is it because d security guard isn't influential or does not have highly placed people? He def would have felt since he got away with d first crime which included manslaughter, he could as well get away with dis. Dats why people choose 2 take laws into their hands, dey don't trust d judicial system anymore. We v been let down so many times!

Na police man all of dem na robbers sef

As far as na policeman then him hand no clean, period.

megareal: So who do we believe? The police that arrested him based on suspicion due to his antecedents or the man who claims he was just coming into town after a long while? BTW aren't people on bail supposed to restrict their movement to their immediate locality until sentence is passed? From what I understand, this man has not even been sentenced for his first crime. Why then was he even released on bail?

man know man

Naija I hail Thee!

Police replies: For were man dey work, na there im dey chop thats why they call am WORKSHOP....

sarge,you own a hummer at d rank of sergent ,wetin you go come own if u become CP.
Private jet abi na apache Helicopter to take your robbery expertise to the next level

"Published reports said Onyeka was arrested in his private Hummer Jeep on his way to keeping an appointment with other members of his gang around 1.30 am on July 26, 2011."
didn't get my attention, privet jet is whats invoke at the moment, thinking of how they would have arrested them in that.