Court Remands 2 Applicants for Allegedly Robbing Bank Users at GunPoint

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded two applicants: John Akpan, 36, and Abati Babalola, 39, at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly robbing some bank users of their valuables at gunpoint.
The police had charged the defendants, whose residential addresses were not provided, with robbery.
The Magistrate, Mrs A. O.O. Fajana, who did not take the plea of the defendants, ordered the prosecution to send the case file to the Lagos State Department of Public Prosecutions (DPPs) for legal advice.
Fajana adjourned the case until December 7 for hearing.
Earlier, the police prosecutor, Sergeant Kenrich Nomayo, had alleged that the defendants armed themselves and robbed some people suspected to be bank users of their valuables, value yet unknown.
Nomayo told the court that the defendants committed the offence with others still at large on August 8 at about 8.30 p. m. in Ajegunle, Lagos.
He said the defendants robbed the people after they had withdrawn cash from a bank’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM).
“The defendants armed themselves with an SMG rifle, 20 rounds of unexpended ammunition, one locally-made gun with seven live ammunition and three magazines and robbed innocent citizens coming out of the bank of their valuables. The police were alerted and the defendants were apprehended”.
The prosecutor said the alleged offences contravened Sections 297(1) (2) (a) (b) and 299 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015, (Revised).