LEKKI ROBBERY: Full Details and Step-by-Step Account of The Incident

The highly condemnable daylight robbery that took place around 4.30pm on Thursday, March 12, 2015 along the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge in Lagos State is one ugly incident that Lagosians won't forget in a hurry. It was the peak hour when workers were on their way home.


Below is a step-by-step account of the robbery
incident:

The robbers, five young men, dressed in military fatigue uniforms and wielding AK47 automatic rifles, came into Lekki with speedboats from the nearby waterway bordering the lagoon along Ikoyi/Lekki bridge and entered an empty but fenced land between FCMB and Stanbic IBTC Bank, by the roundabout of the Lekki end of the bridge.

They forced some miscreants in the empty plot of land to open the makeshift black gate entrance of the plot and burst out into Admiralty road.

They proceeded towards their target  and started shooting sporadically until some of the bandits forced their way into the banks leaving some gang members outside the banks.

While the bandits inside the banks were busy packing huge sums of money into bags, their colleagues outside the banks were still shooting in all fronts.

 The robbers outside the banks sighted some policemen in a white coaster and sprayed bullets towards their direction. The policemen were escorts to some expatriates in the bus.

Three of the policemen were felled while the expatriates were unscathed in the white coaster bus. Not even their brief cases (quite a number of them) were touched by the robbers.

Pedestrians and hawkers ran helter-skelter in the ensuing commotion. A 15-year-old girl who hawks fish in the area was also felled by hot leads of bullets from the bandit’s weapons.


After looting to their satisfaction, they made away on the speedboats that brought them to Lekki.

Barely fifteen minutes after the bandits escaped through the water way with their loot, a team of policemen from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, arrived the scene.

Police sources said information about the attack came late to the command headquarters in Ikeja. However, their counterparts at Maroko, which is the nearest to the scene reportedly claimed they were not informed early.

May the souls of the victims of this unfortunate incident find rest in the bosom of their creator, Amen