Five unidentified gunmen on Monday morning robbed the
Chief Accountant of the Niger State Head of Service, Alhaji Idris Abdullahi, of
over N9.5 million in Minna, the state capital.
The gunmen had trailed Abdullahi from a commercial
bank up to the gates leading to the state secretariat complex where they
blocked the road in an unmarked vehicle making it impossible for the chief accountant
to drive to the office which is just a stone throw from where the gunmen
blocked the road.
The criminals immediately started shooting
sporadically into the air making people and motorists coming towards the
secretariat to scamper for safety.
The money was said to be the overhead expenses fund
for the office of the Head of Service for the month of August.
An eyewitness told journalists that one of the gunmen
approached the vehicle conveying the chief accountant, and took the money said
to be in bags popularly known as ‘Ghana Must Go’.
The gunmen, according to the eyewitness, continued
to shoot into the air as they drove through the western by- pass in a blue 406
Peugeot salon car.
The vehicle was said to have been involved in a
crash as the robbers tried to escape making them to abandoned it after which
they reportedly snatched another one in which they got away to safety.
When contacted, the state Police Command Public
Relations Officer, DSP Muhammed Abubakar, confirmed the incident, saying men of
the anti-robbery squad had been sent after the robbers.
Abubakar said: "We are trailing them; we will
make sure we arrest them," adding that information about the incident had
been relayed to all police points across the state.
About three weeks ago, a similar incident happened where
the cashier of the state Judicial Service Commission (JSC) took was robbed of N1.9million.
The police declined to say if there was any correlation
between the two incidents.
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