2 Female Undergraduates Stripped For Robbery In Calabar -

TWO female undergraduate robbery
suspects and their male partner in
crime were battered and stripped
Unclad in Calabar, Friday afternoon,
for attempting to rob a
businesswoman of N1.5 million.
The three suspects operating in a
Golf car were accosted by a taxi
driver at about 4pm along the
Murtala Muhammed Highway by the
Cross River State new secretariat,
while their driver and one other
suspect escaped.
The gang reportedly ambushed the
businesswoman who had gone to
withdraw the N1.5 million at a bank
along Calabar Road, near the Watt
market, where they approached her
to join their cab and the woman who
appeared eager to arrive home
because of the money she had
withdrawn immediately accepted
and boarded the taxi.
Trouble started as she got to her
destination and discovered that the
taxi driver became unwilling to allow
her alight from the vehicle. The
robbery suspects were said to have
brought out guns and asked her to
cooperate with them if she did not
want to get hurt.
The victim told Vanguard, “The
suspects told me to cooperate with
them and quietly hand over the N1.5
million or I would be killed.” She
said she suddenly became “angry in
the spirit because this money is
contribution money and my
members who want to share the
money on Sunday so they could get
their Christmas things early would
not believe me. So I was ready to die
and began to raise alarm in the
vehicle and calling for help”.
She said her shouts attracted the
attention of a taxi driver who
decided to give the Golf car a hot
chase until he overtook and blocked
the vehicle at Atekong Drive”.
The driver of the five-man gang and
another suspect escaped by quickly
alighting from the car and running
across the highway and then
jumping the perimeter fence of the
new secretariat. She added, “These
two ladies were apprehended by the
people who came to see what was
the trouble between the two taxis.
They began to beat them when they
heard what they had done to me.”
The suspects who were thoroughly
beaten and stripped were later
handed over to police who came to
the scene. Vanguard learnt that the
ladies confessed that they were
students of Ebonyi State University
and members of a syndicate which
left Abakaliki in Ebonyi State to Aba
in Abia State.
When contacted, the Police Public
Relations officer of the State Police
Command, Mr. Hoggan Bassey
confirmed that the three suspects
were in police custody, saying they
would soon be charged to court.
His words, “nemesis has caught up
with them. They are being
investigated and so far they have
confessed that they used to hang
around bank premises with their car,
shouting one chance, one chance
and waiting for people coming out
of the bank with money.
“The Cross River State police
commissioner Shola Shodipo has
promised armed robbers,
kidnappers and other criminals a
raw deal this Christmas season.
Cross River State is the most
peaceful state in Nigeria and we are
prepared to compromise the crime
free status of the state.”
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