Armed robbers suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on
Wednesday attacked travellers on the ever-busy Abuja-Keffi Expressway, carting
away mobile phones and money from
them.
The robbery took place at about 10am on the Expressway
close to a village called Barde, after Gidan Waya in Kaduna State, a few
kilometres from Jos, Plateau state capital.
The robbers numbering about ten, with five of them
wielding dangerous weapons, including guns and machetes, came from the bush,
stopped vehicles and ordered passengers to lie facedown.
Punch reported that their correspondent who was in a vehicle which was a few
distance from them saw market women and others frisked at gunpoint.
Ironically, the incident took place between two police
checkpoints.
The robbers fled into the bush after 30 minutes of
successful operation, when they sighted some soldiers from Keffi in Nasarawa
state.
Some of the victims claimed the robbers were Fulani as
they understood the language they conversed in.
A woman who was on a business trip to Jos for her boss
wept uncontrollably, having lost a huge amount of money.
She begged that our correspondent should relay the
incident to her boss, and from his exclamation, it was obvious that a big money
has gone.
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