Robbers invade house in Kubwa, steal phones, empty bank accounts

Armed robbers numbering about 10 in the early hours of Sunday invaded a “face-me-I-face-you (house)” on Arab Road in Kubwa, a satellite town in Bwari Area Council of the FCT, carted occupants phones and other valuables and emptied their bank accounts. One of the victims, Adenuga Johnson, told City & Crime that, “The armed men […]

Armed robbers numbering about 10 in the early hours of Sunday invaded a “face-me-I-face-you (house)” on Arab Road in Kubwa, a satellite town in Bwari Area Council of the FCT, carted occupants phones and other valuables and emptied their bank accounts.

One of the victims, Adenuga Johnson, told City & Crime that, “The armed men ordered me to give them money. I didn’t want to give the money to them, but one of them hit my head with his machete and I gave them what I had.

“They kept asking for more. I gave them my two phones. Still they kept cutting me with their machetes after which they ransacked my belongings and took some other things.

“They invaded all the rooms in the compound. No one was killed, but quite a number of the people were robbed.”

Another victim, Ogunleye Tunji, said the robbers threatened to kill him if he failed to cooperate.

He said, “At the end, they withdrew N300,000 from my Zenith Bank account. They also withdrew money from my other accounts and went away with my phones.”

The spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, Josephine Adeh, could not be reached for comments at the time of filing this report.