NIGERIA: Ex-DSS Officer, nine others arrested over bullion van robbery in Abia

Ten suspects including a dismissed operative of the Department of State Services (DSS) have been arrested for robbing a bullion vehicle in Abia State.<br />The Commissioner of Police in the state, Janet Agebe, disclosed this on Monday in a press conference in Umuahia, identifying the ex-DSS operative as Prosper Israel from Abia State. <br /><br />Israel was paraded on Monday alongside nine other suspects at the Police Headquarters in the state capital two months after the robbery.<br />It was reported that the suspects were part of the 14-man robbery gang that ambushed a bullion van near Ntigha Junction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway, on July 26, 2022.<br />The Police Commissioner stated that during the robbery, the cash officer of a new generation bank was killed, while the suspects carted an unspecified amount of cash being conveyed by the armoured cash transport van.