The Iju-Ishaga community on the outskirt of Lagos State, was on Tuesday, April 7,
held to ransom by some dare-devil armed robbers who
stormed four streets in the area and carried out a house to house raid
where huge sums of money and valuable properties were carted away as
well hacking a local OPC security guard to death after their bullets
failed to kill him.
The robbers numbering over 20, were however
not so lucky as two of them were arrested by policemen from the Iju
Police Station while other members of the gang fled through the swamp.
The Secretary of the Iju-Ishaga Community Development Association,
Evangelist Elija Umoh reported that the robbers broke into virtually all
the buildings in the area, scaling through the fences.
"The
robbers were about 20. They attacked the four streets that make up the
community. The streets are Nelson Cole, Iyabo Williams, Alafia and Hope
Streets.
The guard, Mathew, was hacked to death with machetes at
Alafia Street. We discovered that they chose to kill him that way after
bullets from the robbers’ guns could not penetrate his body.
It
all started around 2am. I received a call from my tenant that he was
hearing noises in the area. He suspected armed robbers were operating.
I
raised the alarm and called my CDA Chairman. I also called the security
operatives within the area. The Chief security of the area said they
were up to 22 armed robbers.
They moved from one building to the
next. When they discovered that security men were all over the place,
they started looking for an escape route."
Items recovered from
the two apprehended bandits included two locally made guns, cartridges,
charms, identity cards, ATM cards and a substance suspected to be Indian
hemp.
