How drunk banks robber killed 9 DSS agents

A suspect who is believed to be the gang leader of the deadly banks raid that took place in Agbara area of Ogun state last Thursday has been apprehended by the police at a wedding ceremony in Delta State.
A gang of about twenty robbers clad in military camouflage stormed the Agbara Industrial Estate, Ogun State as they raided about three banks before escaping through the waterways. A number of people, including a pregnant woman died in that operation.
Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) arrested the suspect simply identified as Kelly Rotor, following a shootout between detectives and three members of his gang at Sapele, Delta State.
A policeman died in the shootout, while Fotor, an Ijaw native of Arugbo, Ondo State, and three of his colleagues, were arrested with bullet wounds.
Rotor and others were said to have also participated in the Festac, Ikorodu and Lekki bank robberies.
It was gathered that the SIRT operatives, led by CSP, Abba Kyari, trailed Fotor to the wedding ceremony after their last operation at Agbara.
Fotor, while being transported for treatment narrated how he led the South South group of the gang.
He explained that the gang also had a Lagos leader who he identified as Ossy, adding that his gang was made up of 12 men, including himself, with bases in Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa and Ondo states.
Fotor also said his gang normally teamed up with their Lagos group for operations, and that he and his gang were formerly into sea piracy before teaming up with Ossy.
According to him, Ossy is the leader of the pipeline vandals at Arepo and Ikorodu areas.
Fotor also said he and his men took part in the Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbra bank robberies, adding that they made N28 million from Agbara bank robbery.
“I and my group got N14 million share from the Agbara operation, while, Ossy and his group got N14 million. I left Lagos by waters that day after that operation with my men back to Igbokoda, Ondo State, where we shared the money and everyone got his share of the loot.

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‘’It was Ossy’s men who usually pick out our targets. They were the ones who picked out all the targets, my job was to give support and my boat is very big and my boat boy is a professional and knows his way around the water very well,” he stated
He said one of Ossy’s boys normally dressed like a woman during operations, making the public to think there was a lady in the gang.
Fotor also stated that nine operative of the Department of State Security (DSS) who reportedly vanished in Lagos recently had been killed by his gang, but that as commanders of the groups, he and Ossy never intended to kill the operatives when they were captured.
He explained that the operatives stormed their hideout wanting to rescue a woman who they abducted from Festac. “One of our boys who was heavily drunk met us while we were interrogating the suspects after we captured them and he opened fire on them.
‘’I was at their camp at Ikorodu when the DSS operatives were captured and they brought them before me and Ossy and they knelt down and we interrogated them, but that guy, he was Ossy’s man. He was very drunk, walked in and without asking questions opened fire on all of them and killed them. Neither myself nor Ossy ordered their killing, we never wanted to kill them,” he explained.

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