*As bandits trail their movements
BY FRANCIS IGATA, ENUGU
Palpable fear has engulfed bank customers who withdraw substantial amount of money in the Coal city, Enugu following rising cases of armed robbery attacks as they leave bank’s premises.
As a result of this, many customers are now afraid of going alone to banks to withdraw cash. They normally go with two or three friends or brothers.
Day light robbery
Crime Guard gathered from a victim who nearly lost N.4m he withdrew from a bank at the popular and ever-busy Presidential road, recently, that the armed robbers operated in daylight and disappeared from the scene after onlookers confronted them. He said they followed him from the bank to his office where they vandalized his car in search of the money.
How it happened
His story: “I was
accompanied by
one of my friends,
a journalist to
Presidential road
where I withdrew
the sum of
N400,000. We
went to the bank
in a golden
colour, Honda
2005 model. The
bank staff, an
average height,
pregnant, dark in
completion lady,
paid me over the
counter against banking ethics which stipulates that huge
sums be paid behind closed doors. The money, paid in a
mixture of N1, 000 and N500 denominations, was
contained in a black sack.
“We therefore left the bank after I hid the sack containing the money beneath the front passenger’s seat. We drove straight from the bank to Edinburgh where we were to use an internet business centre. The car was parked precisely on the road where other motorists parked in front of Champion Newspaper Office.
“After spending barely ten minutes at the internet business centre which was one pole away from where we parked, on approaching the car, we noticed that scores of onlookers had gathered round the car. Close observation showed that the driver’s door glass as well as the passenger’s door glass were smashed. The incident happened about five meters away from Vanguard Media Limited Office in Enugu.
Eyewitness account
“When I confronted the onlookers, they said that a man hopped down from a Green Golf car with Registration No, BG 795 KCE, tied a handkerchief on his hand and smashed the door glasses."
Continuing, the eyewitness revealed that the huge dark in completion man was armed while his accomplice behind the driving wheels of the golf car revved the get-away-car Intermittently while the operation lasted.
BY FRANCIS IGATA, ENUGU
Palpable fear has engulfed bank customers who withdraw substantial amount of money in the Coal city, Enugu following rising cases of armed robbery attacks as they leave bank’s premises.
As a result of this, many customers are now afraid of going alone to banks to withdraw cash. They normally go with two or three friends or brothers.
Day light robbery
Crime Guard gathered from a victim who nearly lost N.4m he withdrew from a bank at the popular and ever-busy Presidential road, recently, that the armed robbers operated in daylight and disappeared from the scene after onlookers confronted them. He said they followed him from the bank to his office where they vandalized his car in search of the money.
How it happened
His story: “I was
accompanied by
one of my friends,
a journalist to
Presidential road
where I withdrew
the sum of
N400,000. We
went to the bank
in a golden
colour, Honda
2005 model. The
bank staff, an
average height,
pregnant, dark in
completion lady,
paid me over the
counter against banking ethics which stipulates that huge
sums be paid behind closed doors. The money, paid in a
mixture of N1, 000 and N500 denominations, was
contained in a black sack.
“We therefore left the bank after I hid the sack containing the money beneath the front passenger’s seat. We drove straight from the bank to Edinburgh where we were to use an internet business centre. The car was parked precisely on the road where other motorists parked in front of Champion Newspaper Office.
“After spending barely ten minutes at the internet business centre which was one pole away from where we parked, on approaching the car, we noticed that scores of onlookers had gathered round the car. Close observation showed that the driver’s door glass as well as the passenger’s door glass were smashed. The incident happened about five meters away from Vanguard Media Limited Office in Enugu.
Eyewitness account
“When I confronted the onlookers, they said that a man hopped down from a Green Golf car with Registration No, BG 795 KCE, tied a handkerchief on his hand and smashed the door glasses."
Continuing, the eyewitness revealed that the huge dark in completion man was armed while his accomplice behind the driving wheels of the golf car revved the get-away-car Intermittently while the operation lasted.
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