Unknown Militants Attacked Lagos Community, Cart Away Properties

Unknown Militants Attacked Lagos Community, Cart Away Properties 

        Anonymous Militants numbering over  one hundred, attacked a Lagos community leaving a number of residents dead and many others critically wounded. Residents have revealed the gunmen also whisked off their belongings like, Plasma Television, mobile phones, cars, etc.....

       Fatoki community in the Egan, Igando vicinity
of Lagos state, has been abandoned, after no
fewer than a hundred gunmen attacked the location
in a 3-day onslaught.
PUNCH Metro learnt that during the siege,
the gunmen, suspected to be militants,
shot 3 residents and looted stores and
homes inside the community.
aside carting away beverages, along with herbs,
the guys reportedly stole generators,
televisions, laptops and fridges.
It became learnt that the robbers entered into
the community via the waterways.
Our correspondent collected that the
network turned into bordered by using water, which
made it susceptible to assaults from
militants who lived in the surrounding
creeks.

    when correspondent visited the
network on Thursday, he found 4
families locking their homes and hurrying
out of the vicinity with their hundreds.
certainly one of them, a trader, who become nonetheless in
surprise, declined comment.
A resident explained that the trader had
been robbed two times inside the three-day
siege.
The resident, who spoke on circumstance of
anonymity, said the community have been
peaceful till two months in the past.
He said, “a person had run out of the creek
in huge daylight hours, naked and scared. He
changed into stopped with the aid of our safety guys. We
thought he turned into mad, however upon
interrogation, he said he changed into kidnapped by way of
the militants and that they had just launched
him. We referred to as his spouse and children and that they
showed his story.
“three days ago, they stormed the
network inside the morning, taking pictures at the
junction. They injured three humans and
looted shops.”

            Some other resident informed PUNCH Metro that
the robbers promised to return the day
after to hold the attack.
He stated, “the ones human beings lower back on
Tuesday around 12 midday. a number of them
wore pink mask. They spoke English and a
few even spoke Yoruba. They ordered
anybody to lie down. They took away my
money and over excited my neighbour’s
generator.
“They attacked a disable cobbler on the
road and took away his cash. a man,
who turned into washing his car, turned into shot. They
collected his three telephones and N35,000.”
     
     A girl, who claimed to have also been
attacked, said she was no longer round while
the robbers struck the first two days.
“i used to be in my room with my circle of relatives on
Wednesday evening. We had been seeing a
movie around 9pm after I saw four of
them input my room with weapons. They
ransacked my residence and took away my
telephones and different valuables. They took a
massive sum of money I wanted to use for
commercial enterprise. i am bankrupt,” she said.

      PUNCH Metro changed into advised that the robbers
carted away plasma Televisions, laptops
and cellular phones.
they also reportedly shot dead a goat and
a hen.
A trader, who requested not to be named, stated
the guys broke into her save and stole fruit
juice and herbs.
“They carried my fridge at the side of
them and positioned everything on the boat they
brought for the operation,” she added.
A resident and network leader lamented
that despite the fact that the Wednesday operation
lasted for approximately two hours, the police
didn’t show up until the robbers were
gone.
 
        “And when they got here, they handiest patrolled
the doorway to the community; they didn’t
get to the crisis spot,” he added.
PUNCH Metro accrued that the robbers
after the Wednesday raid, threatened to
go back on Thursday (the day before today) to kidnap
and rape ladies within the community.
It changed into learnt that the citizens had
decided to make contributions cash to hire
vigilantes to defend the ones left within the
community.

       The Police Public family members Officer, SP
Dolapo Badmos, showed the attack,
including that two suspects had already been
arrested.
She said, “The command received the
record at the early hours of today
(Thursday). We collected that some
militants attacked the community. The
Igando Divisional Police Officer led
operatives to the scene and upon sighting
the policemen, the militants fled; but two
of them had been arrested. The arrest brought about
the recovery of ammunition.
“for the duration of the assault, two people were shot
and they are presently receiving remedy
at the health center. we have deployed
adequate security employees and equipment
to the location to prevent a recurrence.”