By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

CALABAR – THE Cross River State Police Command, has, arrested an eight-man robbery gang, that trailed a 55-year-old woman to a bank in Calabar and recovered the N2 million the suspected robbers collected from the woman.

Mrs. Ekpo-Bassey Toyo,  was, yesterday, dispossessed of N2 million, which she had withdrawn from a bank on Calabar Road for burial.

Briefing newsmen, yesterday, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Osita Ezechukwu, who was marking his 100 days in office in the state, said the woman had just left the old generation bank and was waiting at a bus stop on Calabar Road, when the robbers, driving in a Mercedes Benz 190, forcefully took the money from her.

Ezechukwu said that luck ran out of the two suspects, whose names were given as Robson Uwem and Godwin Udo, when they drove against traffic in a bid to escape from the heavy traffic on Calabar Road.

He said: “The gang robbed a woman of N2 million as she came out from the bank after withdrawing the money. Luck ran out on them as they got entrapped in the traffic. Their frantic efforts to leave the traffic hold-up aroused the suspicion of undercover policemen, who got them arrested.”

“When the vehicle was searched, a ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bag full of cloths, charms and the sum of N2 million cash were recovered. The suspects took the police to their hideout in Calabar South, where six other gang members were arrested. Three vehicles were recovered in the operation.”

Mrs. Toyo told newsmen that  the suspected robbers had trailed her to the bank, unknown to her and expressed joy that the police recovered the money from the suspects.