A gang of armed
robbers allegedly led by a female who posed as a nurse, has reportedly snatched
an 18-seater Hiace bus belonging to a Benin-based private commercial transport
company, Agbonifo Line.
The female robber who reportedly dressed in nurse uniform,
was said to have led other members of her gang in the robbery operation to
snatch the vehicle marked DGE 317 XB and chassis No: JTFRX12PV08042624, at
gunpoint along the Ekpoma-Agbor road in the state.
Narrating his ordeal in the hands of the robbers from his
hospital bed where he is being treated for injuries he sustained from the
robbers’ attack, the driver of the bus, Anthony Nwaosa, said the suspect
chartered the bus from the company’s park at Ekpoma, Esan West local government
area of Edo state and informed the driver that she wanted to go and convey
computers her husband imported from abroad.
“I was in Ekpoma at our park between
the hours of 10 am and 11am last week Thursday when a lady approached me that
she wanted to charter my bus to a village near Agbor. We agreed for a fee of
N40,000. I met my manager at Ekpoma to confirm from my MD if I should embark on
the trip or not and he agreed.
“So, the following morning (Friday)
a bus was sent from Auchi which we used. Shortly after we departed from the
park, it occurred to me that I didn’t carry the vehicle’s manifest papers so I
asked her to permit me to return to the part to pick it which she obliged.
“During the course of the journey
the girl was receiving several phone calls and I specifically asked her what
exactly are we going to carry and she said computers which her husband that
lives abroad imported. I became suspicious of her because of her conversation
on phone as if the person was nearby.
“She later asked me to stop to pick
somebody along the road and immediately the caller called her again that we
have passed him. She then asked me to park. Only for me to sight about seven
armed men from a nearby bush and they demanded the key of the bus.
“They started beating me with the
butt of their guns and blocks from an uncompleted building while the girl
watched until I couldn’t remember anything that happened again. I only woke up
at the hospital here. That is all I can remember,” Nwaosa said.
The Managing Director of the transport Company, Festus
Agbonifo, who corroborated the driver’s account, said he suspected foul play
between his manager at Ekpoma and the female robber, because, according to him,
no receipt indicating the identity of the girl was issued by the company’s
manager before allowing the chartered bus to embark on the journey.
Agbonifo who said the matter had been reported at Igbanke and
Abudu Divisional Police Station, called on security agencies to apprehend the
robbers.
Source
0 comments:
Post a Comment
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the comment writers alone and does not reflect or represent the views of Bright Clement. info call or whatsapp +2348166575765