Two female members of a robbery gang that had been terrorizing Iheorji
axis of Aba in Abia State area were lynched to death last weekend.
DailySun reports that the angry residents of the area killed the two
girls, whose robbery gang had been giving them sleepless nights.
According to a resident, who would not want his
name in print, for fear of attacks, no night passed
without armed robbers operating in their area for at times, up to three
hours unchallenged.
He recalled that in the early hours of Wednesday, last week, motorcycles
as usual, invaded the area, broke into a building and shot
sporadically, wounding a 15-year-old-boy in the process. They were said
to have robbed the occupants of the house and the neighbours of cash
and other valuable items.
“The armed robbers operated for over three hours unchallenged and
because of the gunshots we heard, we ran into the nearby bush where we
stayed till morning and this has continued,” he said.
The following day, the robbers struck again and attacked a building not
far from that of the previous night’s operation and wounded a teacher
on the leg and he has been hospitalised.
“For over three weeks, we have not been sleeping in our houses because
the robbers now come on daily basis and nobody is challenging them. We,
on our own arranged for private security guards who we pay monthly, but
the robbers overpowered them because of their superior fire power.”
And on that fateful day, the two young women came in company with their
male counterparts to rob as usual, but unknown to them, youths of the
area and the private security guards had laid ambush for them.
When the youths attacked them as they approached, the surprised male gang members escaped leaving the two girls behind.
And trust Aba people, I grew up there, the two ladies were lynched immediately.
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