In saner
climes, arresting the perpetrators of these crimes would have been a
"piece of cake" since bank accounts were involved....
Residents in
Imo State, especially Owerri, the state capital, are living in fear over the
new robbery device adopted by bandits in which victims are forced to disclose
the pin numbers of their Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards and their money
transferred to the suspects’ account at gunpoint in their homes or on the road
at night.
Some victims
who relieve their experience, said they were attacked by robbers with POS
machines, who instantly dispossessed them of their money from their accounts.
A victim,
who was robbed at her home in Owerri, last night, told journalists that the
family was taken unawares when some bandits invaded their home and swiftly
directed them to submit large sums of money. When they could not produce the
money, they were forced to disclose their pin numbers for transfer, using POS
machine they came with.
Also, a man
who wanted to buy a car in Owerri, was shot yesterday by suspected armed
robbers in Owerri, after he had been trailed to the bank.
According to
sources, the victim had gone to a car dealer on the outskirts of the city to
buy a car worth about N1.3 million. The dealer told the prospective buyer to
pay him in cash. In order to comply with the request, the buyer headed to his
bank to withdraw from his account only to be confronted by the bandits.
The matter
is under investigation, according to police sources.
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