Nigeria: Jewelery is taken from an Ogun businesswoman’s home by robbers
By Ahmad Hadizat Omayoza, Mamos Nigeria
In the early hours of last Wednesday, armed robbery suspects entered Oladipo Street, Iyana Yesi, the businesswoman Olufunke Oladipo’s residence in the Sango-Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State.
PUNCH Metro learned that the five armed men, who showed up at the house around 3 a.m. and remained unopposed for hours.
They were said to have taken the victim’s N1.5 million worth of jewelry, N150,000 in cash, and all of her cards from her Automated Teller Machine.
PUNCH Metro learned that the robbers entered the apartment by breaking through the roof with local guns and knives. They blindfolded the residents and tied their hands behind their backs.
They were said to have hit Oladipo on her chest with a piece of wood subsequent to slapping her, thusly leaving her oblivious.
Folasade, her daughter, told PUNCH Metro about the incident on Sunday. She said that a doctor took several hours to revive her mother after the attack.
She said, “They came around 3am. They shattered the ceiling. Blindfolded, my paternal uncle was present at the time. They entered my mother’s bedroom. At the time, my dad wasn’t there.
“At the point when my mother heard the sound of breaking in, she became dubious and called my father about the thing was occurring. The burglars broke into her room as soon as she finished her call, and my dad immediately called back. So they said she ought to get the call.
They began to slap her. They instructed her to answer the phone and reassure her husband that all was well, which she did. My father had proactively called the administrator of the local area to tell him occurring at our home. The robbers were at it for hours. Around 4 a.m., they left our location. She was saved by no one. Doctors had to spend hours bringing my mother back to life. They beat her chest a few times until she became cognizant.
She then fell to the ground. They needed to rush her to the emergency clinic. They began beating her chest to see whether she would recover her cognizance. She ultimately did after a few preliminaries. A x-beam test was directed on her after she grumbled of chest torment.”
At the point when reached, the state Police Advertising Official, Oyeyemi Abimbola, who couldn’t promptly affirm the occurrence, vowed to find out and return.
He was at this point to do as such as of the time this report was recorded.
