Ogun govt takes action as banks remain closed over robbery threat

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Barely three weeks after their refusal to open banks due to an acclaimed robbery threat, the Ogun State Government on Wednesday met with bankers in

DAILY POST reported earlier that banks in Ijebu axis have since shut down over a letter allegedly sent to some of them by suspected armed robbers.

As of Wednesday, our correspondent gathered that some of the banks were still under lock and key, while others run skeletal services between 9am to 2pm. The Commander, 35 Artillery Brigade, Abeokuta, Brigadier-General Adewale Adekoya; State Director, Department of State Services, David Tulsa and the Ogun Acting Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, were also at the meeting; as the Chairman of the Bankers Forum, Olusegun Olusoga, led a delegation of the bankers to the meeting.

The governor was quoted as having said that the reformed security policies of his administration resulted in “the recent deployment of additional Armoured Personnel Carrier to the State, in addition to the resuscitation of OP Mesa to boost the security architecture of the State.”

 

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