The Nigeria Police
Some soldiers attached to the Ojo Cantonment of the Nigerian Army (NA) on Thursday shot two policemen attached to the FESTAC Police Division and a civilian.
The soldiers were part of the troops that were deployed to the 7th Avenue area of FESTAC Town to curtail the activities of the notorious pipeline vandals that had hitherto held sway in the area.
According to an eyewitness account, the incident was instigated by a two-man robbery gang, who had accosted a bank customer.
The bank customer was said to have been leaving the bank when the robbers snatched his money from his hand and fled on their motorcycle.
Some passersby had alerted the police who gave chase but the robbers escaped.
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Jospeh Offor, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, confirmed the incident, although he described it as an act of omission rather than commission.
He said, "At FESTAC Town, a man was attacked after he had withdrawn money from a commercial bank. As he was leaving the bank with the money, two men on bikes accosted him and made away with the money.”
The Nigeria Police
No fewer than five casualties, including two policemen, a pregnant woman and two commercial bike riders, were recorded in an armed robbery operation that was executed at the Agbara Industrial Estate area of Ogun State on Thursday.
This is coming barely one month after another dare-devil armed robbery gang raided some banks along 4th Avenue, FESTAC town, carting away huge sums of money.
The armed robbery gang numbering about 20, including some females, was said to have stormed the area about 7am and in gestapo style robbed six banks located within the industrial area.
Dressed in military camouflage, the heavily armed gang held sway in the area for over three hours, at the end of which five people were killed and several others sustained varying degrees of injuries.
The robbers who arrived Agbara in two speed boats were said to have hijacked two vehicles- a Sports Utility Vehicle and a bus, and rode right through Agbara market to Bank Road, which was their target.
At each bank, the gang, despite not meeting any resistance, blew open the doors and the volts with dynamites and packed their loot in their millions after holding the staff of the banks hostage at gunpoint.
To ensure that no rescue operation would be carried out, the gang stationed some of their members at the two entry and exit points to the road, while a police armoured personnel carrier in the area was riddled with bullets
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