One of the victims, Musa Abdullahi, said at about 11pm Sunday night, he visited a friend in Efab Estate adding that as they stood by his car discussing, two boys approached them telling them to “surrender.”Musa said he asked them what they meant by surrender and one of the men brought out a gun and threatened to deal with him if he didn’t cooperate.
He said he told them that all he had was his phones and N5,000, which they took from him before turning to his friend, asking him to surrender everything he had too.
“My friend didn’t come out with his money or phones. When he told the criminals so, they asked him where he stayed and he told them. They escorted us back to the house and raided the whole house.
“It was a sad situation because they beat up my friend when he could not provide what they were demanding,” he said.
He said that they were then locked up inside a room until Monday morning when a man who heard their call for help forced open the door to the house.
Another resident, a civil servant, Chukwuma Martins, told our reporter that he was returning from work Monday night when he saw three men with a rifle behind the flowers by the pavement.
He said as soon as he saw the rifle and the hoodlums, he turned and run back, adding that one of the criminals fired at him but missed and he was able to escape, adding that his neighbour was, however, not as lucky, as the criminals removed the door rails and gained entrance into the building.
Martins said the neighbour was bound with tape and beaten up by the robbers before they robbed him.
When contacted, FCT police spokesperson, Deputy Superintendent Hyelhira Altine Daniel, said that the Life Camp Divisional Police Officer told her that she had not received such reports.
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