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Gunmen snatch N9.5m from Niger HoS’ chief accountant


Gunmen numbering four attacked the Chief Accountant in the office of the Head of Service of Niger State in Minna on Monday and snatched over N9.5m from him.
The incident paralysed economic activities in the state capital for over two hours as commuters and motorists took to their heels.

The Chief Accountant, Idris Abdullahi, was said to be returning from a bank, where he had gone to withdraw the money around 10.30am.
It was learnt that the money was meant for the overhead of the HoS office.
An eyewitness told our correspondent that the gunmen blocked the chief accountant’s car when he got to the gate of the state secretariat complex and started shooting repeatedly before snatching the money  from him and zoomed off.
The gunshots caused panic as people in the secretariat complex, including the security men and vigilantes, started running for their lives.
The eyewitness added that the gunmen drove towards the customs office along the Western bypass, where their vehicle developed a mechanical fault, forcing them to abandon it; the hoodlums then hijacked another vehicle and zoomed off to an unknown destination.
Efforts to get the HoS office to comment on the incident proved abortive as of the time of filing this report.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mohammad Abubakar, however, confirmed the incident, adding that police personnel were on the trail of  the robbers.

 “We have dispatched the information to all our units in the command for our personnel to be on the alert .We are on top of the situation,” Abubakar said.


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