Leader of Lagos, Ogun bank robberies arrested, made N110m in Festac robbery

The Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team has finally arrested the elusive coordinator of the Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbara bank robberies in Lagos and Ogun States.
Identified Clement Abanara, 42, and popularly called Millions, he was on arrests said to have been coordinating robberies and kidnappings for over 20 years.
According to detectives of the SIRT, he is the brain behind most of the high bank robberies and high profile kidnapping in Lagos and Ogun States.
He was arrested on Thursday in Asayande Estate, Benin City, Edo State by the SIRT.
All the suspects already arrested in connection with the different bank robberies in Lagos and Ogun States have pointed in the direction of Millions as their leader.
He was the one some eyewitnesses said was a female member of the gang during the attack on the Lekki, Lagos State branch of the First City Monument Bank.
He usually wears braids and is skinny.
To arrest Millions, the detectives first located his wife in Warri, Delta State.
The wife led the police team to his new house in Benin City.
A police source said: “He is the most experienced person among the bank robbers and the coordinator of the Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbara bank robberies.
“He dresses as a woman during all the bank robberies.
“Millions was also the leader of a kidnapping gang that kidnapped a Lagos State House of Assembly member and many other prominent citizens in Lagos two years ago.”
The source said Millions and his gang will usually come from Delta State into Lagos State through the water ways for their operations.
They would anchor in Akodo or Ikorodu axis and then kidnap their victims in Lagos.
After they had kidnapped a victim, they would move back through water ways to their camp in Delta State and thereafter family members would go and pay ransom in Delta State before victims were released to them in Warri.
The police source said further: “The IGP’s SIRT arrested four of Millions boys in 2013 and stormed his house in Warri, but he had fled.
“They offered the IG’s team N10 million, but they refused.
“They wanted the team to charge them to court through a senior police officer, but the team turned down the offer.”
The source added said that it was probably the highly uncompromising posture and action of the SIRT’s that deterred Millions and his men from coming to Lagos through the water ways to continue the kidnapping spree of innocent citizens.
The police also discovered that last year, Millions teamed up with one OSSY and TK to fine tune bank robberies in Lagos and Ogun States.
Operatives of SIRT, a day after Christmas, were deployed to Port Harcourt in Rivers State still on the hunt of the bank robbers.
A key member of the Festac and Agbara bank robberies was arrested.
The name of the suspect was given as Dennis Njiku, 30.
It was gathered that Njiku confessed to participating in both the Festac and Agbara bank robberies.
Njiku further reportedly said: “We got N110 million in Festac bank robbery.
“I got N2.5 million as my share.
“I got N 1.2 million as my share in the Agbara bank robbery.”
The police said that the suspect was assisting the SIRT operatives in tracing other fleeing members within Port Harcourt and Warri in Delta State.