Two top managerial staff of the old generation bank in Oye-Ekiti have been arrested by the police, Thursday.
The bank staff were allegedly arrested in connection with a bank robbery that saw men of the underworld carting away with N25 million and a huge sum of foreign currency recently.
The Ekiti State Commissioner of police, Mr Amba Asuquo who visited the bank on assessment tour on Friday, alleged that “there was internal connivance between the bank officials and the robbers going by the startling revelations of the Close Circuit Television (CCTV).”
According to the Commissioner, it was discovered the bank officials allegedly opened the bank strong room seven minutes before the robbers struck.
He also alleged that the CCTV revealed how the bankers and a customer, who ran inside upon hearing the gunshots, had seized the robbery opportunity to stuff money into their pockets as they moved frequently into the vault before the bandits blasted the security door with over seven Improvised Explosive Devise(IED)