Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji
A former bank manager and businessman, (nameswitheld), has been identified as member of armed robbery gang in an operation that took place at Global Signature Hotel in Ibadan at about 5 p.m. on December 13, 2024.
Penpushing reports that the disclosure was made known before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, when two other suspects Ayomide Akanni and David Adewale were arraigned on two counts of armed robbery and assault, while the former bank manger was said to be on the run.
The charge sheet, said the suspects allegedly conspired to commit armed robbery, explaining that the offence is punishable under section 6 (b) of the robbery and firearms (Special Provision) Act Cap R II Vol. 14 Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004.
Penpushing further reports that the police in the second count, alleged that the suspects, armed with dangerous weapons, attacked the hotel manager, Akinola Dare, and dispossessed him of over N2 million that belonged to the hotel.
The prosecutor stated that the suspects thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 1 (2) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act Cap R II Vol. 14 laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004.”
Penpushing also reports that during proceedings the police prosecutor, Kefas Usman, a police inspector, told the court that the suspects forcefully gained entry into Global Signature Hotel in Ibadan by disarming the security officers at the gate, and after making a forceful and unlawful entry into the hotel, went straight to the control room, destroyed the CCTV memory and cut off its machine.
“After vandalising it, they went to the POS machine, took the machines of the company, went to the manager of the hotel, one Dare Akinola, at gunpoint and took him to the cash registry to collect all the sales of the week including room sales, lodgment, bar & hall payment totalling over two million, one hundred and forty thousand Naira,” the prosecutor said.
‘They went to all the rooms, rounded up all the customers, and forcefully asked them to transfer money into personal account during the robbery. At gunpoint, they gathered everybody to the reception, laid them down at gunpoint and in fear of their lives, the customers made cash transfers to personal accounts, they vandalised some other things, took the lodgment book, computers, and other equipment’, the prosecutor said
The Magistrate, Justice Giwa Babalola, however, ordered that the suspects be remanded at the Agodi Correctional Center in Ibadan and adjourned the case till January 29, 2025 for further mention, in anticipation that the review of available evidence would have been concluded.
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