According to the police, criminals have plans to assault commercial banks in Kwara State as a result of the problems brought on by the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) new currency policy.
This was said in a statement released on Saturday by Kwara State Police Command spokesperson SP Ajayi Okasanmi.
He said, “Intelligence available to the command showed that hoodlums have perfected plans to replicate the lawlessness that was unleashed on some banks in some states in the country, owing to the crisis emanating from the naira notes swap.”
“While the government is doing all within its power to normalise the situation, the command wishes to assure the good people of Kwara State of its capacity to deal ruthlessly with any lawbreaker. Criminals are therefore advised to shelve any such dastardly idea,” he added.
Okasanmi said that the state’s Police Commissioner, Paul Odama, had ordered that commercial banks and other financial facilities be patrolled very closely.
“Criminal elements in the state should change their minds as anyone arrested would be met with heavy consequences,” he said.