Bizman Loses $11m Cash In Broad Daylight To Robbers In Ogun
A four-man gang of armed robbers, on Friday afternoon, robbed a businessman of $ 11 million cash at the Oke-Sokori axis of Abeokuta metropolis, Ogun State capital.
The robbers, all clad in black T-shirts and Jean trousers, also wore black face masks and brandished their rifles on the metropolitan street in an operation that lasted about three minutes only.
They escaped the scene with their targeted money stacked in two ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bags after demobilising the car of the unsuspecting victim, a Hausa trader, who rode in a Toyota Venza salon car, marked: ABC 565 GN.
An eye-witness said that the robbery suspects, who operated in a tinted Toyota Camry car with registration number JJN 137 *** had around 4:35 pm intercepted their victim right in front of the FATGBEMS Petroleum Filling Station at Oke-Sokori, where they forcefully halted the victim’s car and forced the car’s trunk open.
After gaining entry into his car, the suspects thereafter offloaded the two bags containing the foreign currency, uploaded the same into their car and also zoomed off with the victim’s car key before security operatives could arrive at the scene.
Narrating his ordeals before the two police patrol teams that later arrived at the scene 30 minutes after the robbery incident, the victim, whose name could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report, was returning to his base after an unsuccessful banking transaction where he had gone to deposit the foreign currency.
During his narration, the Abeokuta-based Hausa trader told the police patrol team that he had earlier approached the Oke-Ilewo branch of a commercial bank to deposit the money, but was turned back on the premise that the banking hours had lapsed.
But while returning to his base, the dare-devil armed robbers struck.
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