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By Dayo Badmus
The Lagos State Police Command have been called upon to fully investigate a Robbery incident at the ATM gallery of Guaranty Trust Bank, on 190, Latunde Labinjo Avenue, Onipanu, Lagos.
The call was made by the family of the victim, Mr. Ayodele Adebunmi.
According to the family, the victim, had visited the GTB ATM gallery at about 10.pm on Thursday, 24th of December to withdraw cash alongside an Uber Taxi Driver, Taofeek Oyedokun, whose service he had engaged earlier.
The victim decided to pay the Uber Driver cash, after other banking transactions through the mobile App was not working.
Some hoodlums stormed the ATM stand, attacked and dispossessed Adebunmi and Oyedokun, of cash, mobile phones and other valuables.
Adebunmi lost N20,000 in cash, his shirt was also forcefully taken from him by the men of the underworld who also inflicted deep machete cuts on Adebunmi, shot him on the leg and leaving him “half dead.”
The Uber Taxi Driver equally lost his N18,000 cash and Power Bank to the attackers but, managed to scamper for safety, after being beaten by the assailants.
Narrating the ordeal, the Uber driver said he returned to the scene few minutes after the robbers, numbering three left, only to find Adebunmi in the pool of his own blood.
Adebunmi was admitted and given treatment at the Military Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
According to Mr. Opeolu Adebunmi, an Uncle to the victim, there is more the Robbery incident, as the family suspect foulplay from the Bank’s security operatives.
According to him, the security watched the incident from their office with no intervention or reaction.
The victim’s uncle also said, expended shells of fired bullets in the fateful day were immediately picked up by the security officials attached to the bank the next day.
In his letter dated 29th of December and addressed to the Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adebunmi demanded a full investigation into the incident.
He said “Information at my disposal revealed that as at Saturday, 26 December, 2020 when the Uber Taxi Driver visited the crime scene again, there was a confirmation that the Bank’s Security guards were on duty on the sad day, and witnessed the whole scene as it unfolded from the Upstairs office, where they were holed in.
“There were also indications that expended shells of the bullets fired while the violent robbery took place were picked up in the early hours of the day after the sad event by some Security officials of the Bank.
“May I therefore appeal that you kindly cause an investigation to be conducted into the incident, and also assist by using your good offices to compel an urgent review of the CCTV footage of the recorded incident in order to unmask the perpetrators of this dastardly act and bring them to justice.”
The Lagos State Police command is yet to respond to the family’s plea concerning the incident.
