N66.4 million recovered
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested two of its operatives, while the Nigerian Army has equally nabbed one soldier in connection with a robbery that took place in a bureau de change.
According to a release signed on behalf of the DSS by one Tony Opuiyo, the Service arrested two out of five of its staff involved in the robbery and sharing, on 20th November, 2015, of the sum of N310m belonging to a bureau de change operator in Abuja.
Opuiyo, in the release, said while three of the DSS staff are now at large, the military authorities have commenced a detailed investigation of five of its personnel involved in the crime.
Preliminary investigations, he said, have revealed that Abdulrasheed Ahmadu Maigari of the DSS, conspired with four other colleagues of his, namely: Solomon Inusa, Peter Okoye, Patrick Ishaya and George Mwatapwa Ibbi, to carry out this reprehensible act.
He said the five military personnel were led by one Capt. Hussein Ishaku Mshelia.
"Meanwhile, the Service has arrested Maigari and Ibbi; and Mshelia was equally arrested by the Army authorities.
"Efforts are ongoing to apprehend those still at large. A total of Sixty-Six Million Four Hundred and Thirty Seven Thousand, Four Hundred and Forty-five Naira (N66,437,445.00) and Six Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($6,200) have so far been recovered...".
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