The Edo State Police Command on Friday confirmed that some monies suspected to be carted away by robbers during Thursday’s armed robbery attacks on some banks in Uromi have been recovered.
Mr Phillip Ogbadu, the State Commissioner of Police confirmed this in an interview.
Ogbadu said that about N37 million and five cars suspected to have been used by the robbers were recovered at a bush where they were abandoned.
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He noted that it was suspected that the robbers might have abandoned the monies and the vehicles on realising that the police were on their trail.
The daredevil armed robbers had late Thursday evening carried out what many persons had termed coordinated armed robbery attacks on some commercial banks in Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo.
The operations according to some eyewitnesses lasted for more than two hours.
The Edo State Deputy Governor, Phillip Shaibu had earlier on Friday paid an on-the-spot assessment visit to Uromi over the incident.