Notorious member of the dreaded armed robbery gang that recently terrorised banks through the creeks and waterways of Lagos, Clement Abanara Million, has said that it was the chieftaincy title he took in his locality that led him to armed robbery.
The 42-year-old suspect who assumed the title of ‘Ebimewe’, meaning ‘someone doing well’, made the disclosure in an interview a few days after his arrest by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team.
Said he: “My real names are Clement Abanara Millions. I am from Ogbembri Village, Warri North, Delta State. I was one of the militants granted amnesty when we dropped our guns. The Federal Government used to pay us N65, 000 each every month.
“In the year 2014, I accepted a high chieftaincy title called Ebimewe, but the high financial demands of my new title made me to join a bank armed robbery gang to get enough money to meet up.”
“I participated in a bank robbery at Ikorodu and the second operation at the same Ikorodu. (And) FESTAC, Agbara and Lekki bank robbery operations. We got about N66 million in Agbara bank robbery and N23 million in FESTAC operation; my share was N800, 000. We operated with 13 guns in the FESTAC operation and we were about 26 in number. My Agbara share was N2.5 million.
“We used two buses in the FESTAC operation. In the Ikorodu operation, I got N500, 000 out of N12 million and in the second operation at Ikorodu, I got N800, 000 out of N62 million.”
“There was a time the gang was killing policemen and that made me to think of resigning from armed robbery and kidnapping work. I knew the police would be after us anytime they lose one or more of their men or when innocent citizens are shot dead in an armed robbery operation.
“I even went to church, confessed my sins and vowed not to go back to armed robbery work, but these our gang members, our leaders, would come with one reason or the other and make us to go for another operation. I also needed more money as a high chief. I was not robbing banks till last year despite my 20-year experience in armed robbery. It was because of fuel business that I came to Lagos. I used to bring some jerry cans, and each jerry can is loaded for N1, 000.
“After the Ikorodu bank robbery, I came back and followed them to rob a bank in FESTAC because of ‘long throat’ (greed). I returned to Ikorodu to participate in another bank robbery because my 500 jerry cans caught fire. I had one Highlander jeep, which I sold for N800, 000. I bought three sawing machines. I relocated to Benin to be able to monitor my sawmill workers."
The 42-year-old suspect who assumed the title of ‘Ebimewe’, meaning ‘someone doing well’, made the disclosure in an interview a few days after his arrest by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team.
Said he: “My real names are Clement Abanara Millions. I am from Ogbembri Village, Warri North, Delta State. I was one of the militants granted amnesty when we dropped our guns. The Federal Government used to pay us N65, 000 each every month.
“In the year 2014, I accepted a high chieftaincy title called Ebimewe, but the high financial demands of my new title made me to join a bank armed robbery gang to get enough money to meet up.”
“I participated in a bank robbery at Ikorodu and the second operation at the same Ikorodu. (And) FESTAC, Agbara and Lekki bank robbery operations. We got about N66 million in Agbara bank robbery and N23 million in FESTAC operation; my share was N800, 000. We operated with 13 guns in the FESTAC operation and we were about 26 in number. My Agbara share was N2.5 million.
“We used two buses in the FESTAC operation. In the Ikorodu operation, I got N500, 000 out of N12 million and in the second operation at Ikorodu, I got N800, 000 out of N62 million.”
“There was a time the gang was killing policemen and that made me to think of resigning from armed robbery and kidnapping work. I knew the police would be after us anytime they lose one or more of their men or when innocent citizens are shot dead in an armed robbery operation.
“I even went to church, confessed my sins and vowed not to go back to armed robbery work, but these our gang members, our leaders, would come with one reason or the other and make us to go for another operation. I also needed more money as a high chief. I was not robbing banks till last year despite my 20-year experience in armed robbery. It was because of fuel business that I came to Lagos. I used to bring some jerry cans, and each jerry can is loaded for N1, 000.
“After the Ikorodu bank robbery, I came back and followed them to rob a bank in FESTAC because of ‘long throat’ (greed). I returned to Ikorodu to participate in another bank robbery because my 500 jerry cans caught fire. I had one Highlander jeep, which I sold for N800, 000. I bought three sawing machines. I relocated to Benin to be able to monitor my sawmill workers."
Source: The Nation
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