The Ogun State Police Command has frowned on the alleged refusal of bankers in Ijebu axis of the state to cooperate with its officers to investigate sources of letters from suspected armed robbers notifying the banks of their plan to raid them.
Banks in the axis have closed down since last Monday over the claim that they received notice of attack from some hoodlums but the police are angry about this development.
The police described the alarm from the bank as. false alarm, but the bankers said they would not reopen unless the armoured personnel carriers stationed close to banks in the area was repaired.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, warned in a statement issued on Sunday that bankers in Ijebu Ode and its environs would be arrested should any robbery case happen anywhere in the axis.
The statement read,“The command is appalled at this unprofessional behaviour of bankers in that axis despite continuous assurance of their safety by the police and other security agencies.
“Their recent action can only be described as treacherous and mischievous because they are not the only bankers we have in the state and the country in general, yet they are the ones complaining of robbery threat every now and then.
“They claimed armed robbers wrote to inform them that they were coming to attack them, but they would not make the purported letter available to the police for investigation and possible apprehension of those behind it.
“It is bad that from time to time they cry wolves, carelessly and recklessly; and in none of these numerous occasions has any robbery taken place.
“The command, therefore, wishes to warn that the bankers will surely be the first set of suspects if anything unusual in the form of bank robbery (God forbid) happens in the area, at least for them to disclose their ceaseless sources of information.”
The police said they were up to the task and were always working to make the state uninhabitable for criminals while soliciting the support of residents of the state to be more effective in the discharge of their duties.
