US Police Nab Nigerian UN Worker …For Robbing Four Banks In New York

A Nigerian national has been arrested by the New York Police Department for allegedly robbing four banks in Manhattan.
The 53-year-old Abdullahi Shuaibu, who was a former United Nations employee, reportedly robbed the banks during his lunch break.
NYPD officers arrested the Nigerian on Monday on two counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery.
Reports from United States media said the four banks were within walking distances from Shuaibu’s office at the Foreign Press Center inside the US Mission to the United Nations, which is across the street from the UN building.
The thief’s two-month robbery spree was brought to an abrupt end after a retired police officer recognised the Nigerian from a surveillance image, and reported to the NYPD.
In the first incident, Shuaibu walked into a Santander Bank on Madison Avenue near E. 43rd St. on February 27, and told the teller he had a gun. The bank employee complied and handed him an unknown sum of money.
He hit two more banks in March, first striking out at a Bank of America on Third Avenue near E. 47th St. on the 13th.
He was also successful in robbing a Santander Bank on Third Avenue and E. 63rd St. on the 27th.
During the most recent incident, last Monday, Shuaibu walked into an HSBC on Third Avenue and E. 40th St. around 2:30 p.m. and passed a note demanding cash to the teller.
The teller did not read the note and asked him for identification.
He, however, instructed the teller to read the note, keeping his hand in his jacket pocket while simulating a gun, police said.