A reporter of the New Telegraph Newspaper, Abuja Bureau, Yekeen Nurudeen, was recently attacked at his residence by a four-man robbery gang in Garam, a boundary town between the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Niger state.
According to Nurudeen, the armed robbers scaled the fence of his house to gain access at about 9:45 pm carting away money, phones, I-pads and his Toyota Camry after ordering him to disable the security lock of the car if protected while pointing guns at him.
“I was with my wife in the sitting room at about 9:45pm, watching a channel on DSTV and charging my phones and I-Pad for Monday’s work when suddenly I heard my Caucasian dog barking. I peeped through the window, I saw someone trying to jump into the compound through the fence.”
Before I could understand what was happening, four heavily armed men were already inside my house demanding for money, dollars and threatening to kill me and my wife.”
Yekeen, who covers Ministry of Education, Labour and FCT for New Telegraph Newspapers, further revealed to our correspondent that the armed robbers threatened to kill him and his wife if he did not give them money.
He said after handing over the money he had kept for his family upkeep ahead of the new week, the robbers took his two Torch BlackBerry phones, a Techno Pad II I-Pad, as well as another I-Pad belonging to his wife, her jewelleries and other items.
“They took my car and I have my laptop inside the car, my two digital recorders, digital camera, my international passport was also inside the car because I used it recently,” he said.
He disclosed that his hands and legs were tied by the robbers while his mouth was also gagged when the robbers finished the operation even as the same thing was done to his wife while his seven year old son watched as they were tying him down.
“When they finished, after one of them had kicked my head and face severally asking if I didn’t know they were coming, they tied my hands backward, my legs and also my mouth and locked me in my bedroom.
My 7-year-old son woke up in the process and watched as they were tying me.
They also did the same thing to my wife and locked her in her room with two kids who were crying. It was only my elder daughter who did not wake up throughout the operation,” Yekeen, whose one side of his head was swollen from the kicks, said.
The robbers, according to robbed three other houses in his neighbourhood and left a vigilante member dead after an operation that lasted about five hours.
He said the incident has been reported at Kuduru Police station and Sabon Wuse Police station noting that no clue has been heard about the stolen car.
