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More Details On Lekki Robbery: How Policemen, Father Of 7 Were Killed by Nobody: 12:15pm On Mar 15, 2015
12 (or more) men dressed in military fatigue
wielding AK47 automatic rifles brought terror to
Lekki Phase 1 on Thursday March 12th. They
robbed 1 (or 2) banks on Admiralty way and
killed 6 (or 7) people. No person in the bank (s)
were killed because they cooperated with the
robbers. The robbers made away with money in
the vaults and even broke the ATM and took all
the money there.
From Sunday Sun
The fulfillment of the assurance given by police
authorities to arrest the perpetrators of the
robbery incident that cut short the lives of three
policemen and three others in Lekki area of
Lagos last Thursday, though may serve as a
form of succour to many Nigerians, the
bereaved families, particularly that of Inspector
Bethel, indigene of Kwale in Delta State and
father of seven, will certainly need more to
survive the tragedy that hit them.
Two other policemen identified as Sergeant
George, an Urhobo also from Delta State and
Corporal Ikechukwu, a Benin man from Edo
State.
Six persons including three mobile policemen
were killed and several others seriously injured
during the incident which happened on Lekki-
Ikoyi Link bridge when the rampaging armed
robbers attacked a new generation bank.
Security sources told Sunday Sun that the three
policemen were on the escort of some
expatriates from Victoria Island to the
international airport in Ikeja when they ran into
the bandits who had stormed the bank for
robbery operation.
Sunday Sun reliably gathered that the escort
team decided to follow the Lekki-Ikoyi link
bridge because of the usual heavy traffic on
Ozumba Mbadiwe way with the lead driver who
carried the foreigners on a Coaster bus leading
the way.
The team, it was learnt, ran into two robbers
who were in army camouflage uniform. They
were brandishing a submachine gun, which a
source said uses ten magazines and an AK47
rifle which uses double magazines.
The driver who had no inkling of the danger
lurking around was said to have continued with
the journey without taking any precautions.
“When the entourage got to the second army
check point, which was around the FCMB bank
being robbed at the time, there were many men
in camouflage on standby as if waiting for
someone.
“They allowed the Coaster bus to pass but
immediately opened fire on the right side of the
Hilux Van conveying the police inspector, a
Sergeant and a Corporal. The Police inspector
who was the leader of the escort and the
corporal who sat directly behind him were hit by
bullets and died instantly.
“Then the first two men in camouflage left
behind began to shoot at the Hilux Van. The
driver who is a civilian stopped the vehicle,
switched off the engine, got down of the truck,
raised his hands and ran for his dear life. The
Sergeant on the other hand realizing he had
been over powered, got down from the truck
without his ammunition with his hands raised in
the air and attempted to run away from the
vehicle. But the robbers opened rapid fire on
him till they were sure he was dead,” the source
revealed.
Sunday Sun further learnt that the Coaster bus
driver who saw another check point ahead of
him was quick to realize that the area was too
hostile and decided to slow down.
“One of the robbers fired at the bus but at that
point, two things happened simultaneously. The
driver of the Coaster bus stopped while a girl
selling smoked fish who was running for her life
was hit by a bullet in her forehead which came
out through the back and damaged the right
side of her head. She fell down in front of the
Coaster bus and died instantly. Another civilian
was hit by a stray bullet.
Meanwhile, the robbery inside the bank was
said they have been carried out quickly without
any resistance. “People didn’t know of it
because they felt the men in army camouflage
were there to secure the area
Source source
Re: More Details On Lekki Robbery: How Policemen, Father Of 7 Were Killed by brownlord: 12:31pm On Mar 15, 2015
Xbabangida:
12 (or more) men dressed in military fatigue
wielding AK47 automatic rifles brought terror to
Lekki Phase 1 on Thursday March 12th. They
robbed 1 (or 2) banks on Admiralty way and
killed 6 (or 7) people. No person in the bank (s)
were killed because they cooperated with the
robbers. The robbers made away with money in
the vaults and even broke the ATM and took all
the money there.
From Sunday Sun
The fulfillment of the assurance given by police
authorities to arrest the perpetrators of the
robbery incident that cut short the lives of three
policemen and three others in Lekki area of
Lagos last Thursday, though may serve as a
form of succour to many Nigerians, the
bereaved families, particularly that of Inspector
Bethel, indigene of Kwale in Delta State and
father of seven, will certainly need more to
survive the tragedy that hit them.
Two other policemen identified as Sergeant
George, an Urhobo also from Delta State and
Corporal Ikechukwu, a Benin man from Edo
State.
Six persons including three mobile policemen
were killed and several others seriously injured
during the incident which happened on Lekki-
Ikoyi Link bridge when the rampaging armed
robbers attacked a new generation bank.
Security sources told Sunday Sun that the three
policemen were on the escort of some
expatriates from Victoria Island to the
international airport in Ikeja when they ran into
the bandits who had stormed the bank for
robbery operation.
Sunday Sun reliably gathered that the escort
team decided to follow the Lekki-Ikoyi link
bridge because of the usual heavy traffic on
Ozumba Mbadiwe way with the lead driver who
carried the foreigners on a Coaster bus leading
the way.
The team, it was learnt, ran into two robbers
who were in army camouflage uniform. They
were brandishing a submachine gun, which a
source said uses ten magazines and an AK47
rifle which uses double magazines.
The driver who had no inkling of the danger
lurking around was said to have continued with
the journey without taking any precautions.
“When the entourage got to the second army
check point, which was around the FCMB bank
being robbed at the time, there were many men
in camouflage on standby as if waiting for
someone.
“They allowed the Coaster bus to pass but
immediately opened fire on the right side of the
Hilux Van conveying the police inspector, a
Sergeant and a Corporal. The Police inspector
who was the leader of the escort and the
corporal who sat directly behind him were hit by
bullets and died instantly.
“Then the first two men in camouflage left
behind began to shoot at the Hilux Van. The
driver who is a civilian stopped the vehicle,
switched off the engine, got down of the truck,
raised his hands and ran for his dear life. The
Sergeant on the other hand realizing he had
been over powered, got down from the truck
without his ammunition with his hands raised in
the air and attempted to run away from the
vehicle. But the robbers opened rapid fire on
him till they were sure he was dead
,” the source
revealed.
Sunday Sun further learnt that the Coaster bus
driver who saw another check point ahead of
him was quick to realize that the area was too
hostile and decided to slow down.
“One of the robbers fired at the bus but at that
point, two things happened simultaneously. The
driver of the Coaster bus stopped while a girl
selling smoked fish who was running for her life
was hit by a bullet in her forehead which came
out through the back and damaged the right
side of her head. She fell down in front of the
Coaster bus and died instantly. Another civilian
was hit by a stray bullet.
Meanwhile, the robbery inside the bank was
said they have been carried out quickly without
any resistance. “People didn’t know of it
because they felt the men in army camouflage
were there to secure the area
Source : http://lindaikeji..in/2015/03/more-details-on-lekki-robbery-how.html?m=1

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Re: More Details On Lekki Robbery: How Policemen, Father Of 7 Were Killed by Nobody: 12:47pm On Mar 15, 2015
photos from the crime scene.

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Re: More Details On Lekki Robbery: How Policemen, Father Of 7 Were Killed by Vision4God: 1:20pm On Mar 15, 2015
D robbers will nvr go unpunished.
Re: More Details On Lekki Robbery: How Policemen, Father Of 7 Were Killed by Nobody: 1:29pm On Mar 15, 2015
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