The residents of Adio and Ekimogun Streets, as well
as Kehinde Lane in the Bariga area of Lagos State, are now sleeping with
one eye open after repeated attacks by armed robbers who invade the community almost on a daily basis.
According
to a resident who informed Pulse of the development, Adio had witnessed
three attacks within one week while of Ekimogun Street and Kehnide Lane
had been attacked twice and once respectively.
It was during a recent raid at Ekimogun Street that
saw a newly-wed woman who just moved into a house on the street with her
husband, raped while the husband was forced to watch the gory scene.
A landlady on the street also spoke about the constant attacks:
“They
have entered my house three times now. The first time was early Monday
morning. They ransacked all the flats in the building.
On
Wednesday night cum Thursday morning, they returned and stole more
things. Because of all these, people stopped living in their houses. My
children and I now squat in a friend’s apartment in Alagbado.
But
on Friday morning, we returned and discovered the robbers had come and
because they did not meet anybody, they broke in and took away my
television and DSTV decoder.”
Another resident of the area, Solomon Johnson, also narrated his tales of woes in the hands of the bandits.
“They
demanded the Pin numbers of the cards. After they left and discovered
that the Pins were incorrect, they returned to the room the next day and
attacked the owners for giving them wrong Pins. They then asked for the
correct Pins from them.
They cut my leg
with a cutlass and beat me up, telling me to release the phones. I told
them I did not have any phone. I was admitted in the hospital for two
days.
On the night the woman was raped,
those robbers sneaked in and held those people hostage. The woman just
moved into the house with her husband. They got married less than a
month ago.
One of the robbers raped her. She was taken to the hospital the next day for treatment.”
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