Peter Oko, a cleaner at Diamond Bank has been arrested for stealing N5.675 million from the Nyanya branch of the bank in Nasarawa State.

Oko confessed that he stole the keys, stole the money and his it in a carton which he took home.

He said,

“As a cleaner, I knew where all the keys were kept.”

He added, “I single-handedly carried out the operation because I have been working as a cleaner in the bank for the past 10 years and my eyes had been on one of the keys to the vault, where the bank used to keep all its money.

“As a cleaner, my attention was not only on the keys, but on how I will carry out the operation successfully without being caught by either the security or any staff of the bank.”

He added, “As a cleaner, I knew where all the secret files were kept and where the bank kept its keys where you can have access to dollars, Nigerian currency and all other currencies.

“The devil of economy recession pushed me into the crime; I have never committed a criminal act before, luck ran out on me and I was caught in the process,” he stated.

The State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Bello said the crime has been transferred from Karu Divisional Police Headquarters to the SCIID for investigations.

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