Toyin Ibrahim, working with Television Continental (TVC) and 4 other
people were brutalised by suspected ‘One Chance’ robbers who stole their
phones, cash and used the victim’s ATM cards to withdraw money from
banks, around 5:30am yesterday.
Ibrahim, who is currently on admission, said she had closed from the
office about 5.30a.m. and was returning home when she boarded the bus
close to the Ketu Bridge. According to her, “two minutes after the
vehicle took off, one of the robbers began to hit me.
He asked me for my ATM pin number but I gave her a wrong one, which
made him angry. When they tried the numbers and discovered that the pin
was a fake one, they descended on me, hitting and booting me with their
heavy shoes. I had to tell them the truth, giving them the accurate pin
numbers of my GTBank and Skye Bank accounts.
As they were beating me, I bit one of them and he became angry and
tore my jeans trousers. He wanted to rape me. I was saved by one of the
robbers, who warned that there was no time for that. Our company just
paid my salary and was hoping to withdraw some money yesterday, but the
robbers have withdrawn everything from my accounts.
It was a 14-seater bus. I wanted to sit at the row behind the
driver’s seat but the conductor said that was his seat so I had to go to
the last seat at the back. I and four others fell victim to the robbers
who had positioned themselves strategically on the bus.
They were stepping and marching on me very hard. I would have died if
they had succeeded in raping me. Even as they were doing that, they
pushed two other victims down while on motion. They injured me badly in
the head, despite dispossessing me of my ATM cards, phones and the
N3,000 in my pocket. I am still in pains and spitting blood.” Cc:
TheGuardian
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