Maduako Igbokwe I Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024
AWKA, Anambra – Gunmen went on rampage in Awka Anambra State capital robbing tricycle drivers at Regina junction Keke park by Enugu -Onitsha expressway.
They also robbed POS operators at Eke-Awka axis and collected the operators’ money and phones. During the robbery operation, at Regina junction, the Gunmen suspected to be members of one of cult groups in Awka , collected phones and money from Keke drivers and passengers.
According to an eye witness who never wanted his name on print for fear of attack said , the gunmen stormed the tricycle park with tricycles armed with guns and ordered all the Keke drivers and passengers to lay down and collected their money.
The eye witness further said that those who carried the operations are suspected to be cult boys from Awka.
According to the eye witness, the park has been paying some amount to certain individuals every week and the park operators had not paid since this January. The eye witness refused to name the people collecting the money.
Also an insider who for fear of being attack also said that ,they have been paying N30,000 every week to some people who he refused to identified.
According to him, the attack followed their inability to pay for some weeks now. He said they are in danger in the park and called on government to help them in the fight against cult attack in the state capital.
The eye witness said that the state government claimed to have stopped touts in the state, regretting that instead the touts are regrouping to terrorize the Keke operators every day.
“The state government claimed to have formed anti Touts to fight touting and others but these touts have change strategy and they are still terrorising Keke operators,” he said.
In seminar development, armed men robbed POS operators in eke Awka and collected their phones and money.
An eye witness who does not want his name in on print said the robbers stormed their area with some tricycles and ordered them to empty their money into their bags.
One of POS operators said she lost N860,000 to the robbers.
All efforts made to get reactions from Anambra State Police command proved abortive as all phone calls and messages to command spokesperson DSP Tochukwu ikenga were not replied.
