An armed robbery gang on Friday evening escaped with $11 million at the Oke-Sokori of Abeokuta, in Abeokuta North local government area of Ogun State.
Eyewitnesses said the four-man robbery gang, all wearing black T-shirts and jean trousers, wore black facemasks, and brandished riffles in an operation that lasted about 3 minutes.
However, the suspects escaped the scene with their targeted money, stacked in two ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bags, after demobilizing the car of their victim, a Hausa trader, who rode the area in a Toyota Venza salon car, marked, (ABUJA) ABC 565 GN.
It was gathered that the robbery suspects, who operated in a tinted Toyota Camry ‘Muscle’, had at around 4: 35p.m on Friday evening, intercepted their victim right in front of the FATGBEMS Petroleum Filling Station at Oke – Sokori, where they forcefully stopped the victim’s Toyota Venza car and forced the car’s boot open.
‘’After gaining entry into the car, the suspects thereafter offloaded the two bags containing the foreign currency into their car and also zoomed off with the victim’s car key before security operatives arrived,’’ an eyewitness said.