Man Battles Robbers, Recovers Gun

In a show of bravery, a man identified as Mr. Adekola yesterday overpowered a gang of robbers who attacked him at his Lugbe Zone 5 residence in the early hours of yesterday and dispossessed them of their weapons.

Two armed robbers were dispossessed of their weapons in the early hours of Monday, between 1:50 am and 2:02 am, during a robbery operation in the house of their victim at Lugbe zone 5 Abuja.

?Adekola said he was sleeping in his one-bedroom apartment when the two robbers who had only their underpants on entered the room and ordered the two women they met sleeping in the sitting-room to bring out all the money in the house.

Flashing their torchlight into the eyes of the women, they immediately announced that they were thieves and ordered them to cooperate by submitting all portable valuables in the house as they commenced a search of the house.
Adekola’s wife was in company of her friend, Miss Happiness Jack, who had come to visit her that night but was forced to spend the night with the family due to uncompleted business, was robbed of her phone and N4,000 which the robbers found in her purse.

“They entered the sitting-room and met us sleeping. They tapped me and said, ‘We are thieves. Cooperate with us and bring your phones and money’,” Mrs. Adekola said.

“I saw them when they entered the house and flashed light at us then they told us ‘We are thieves, cooperate with us’,” Happiness also said.

The noise attracted Mr. Adekola who was sleeping in the bedroom with the children. He opened the curtain between the bedroom and the sitting-room thinking it was a neighbour seeking his assistance for an emergency, only to see two strange men brandishing weapons at his wife and her friend.

The robbers, who thought the two women were the only occupants of the house, were taken aback when Adekola appeared from the bedroom and wrestled with the leader of the gang, dispossessing him of a loaded locally fabricated pistol.

“The leader of the two-man team brandished the pistol to intimidate me and ordered me to bring out the money and produce my phone, while the other continued a desperate search for money and other valuable items in the room.
“I began the search for the phone, but maintained closeness to the man who was with the gun. Thrice I tried to look at the face of the robber, but the powerful ray of light from the torch blinded me but at the first opportunity, I went for the pistol and a long struggle ensued between us. In the process, I called out to my neighbours who came in to assist me,” Adekola explained.

The robbers however got scared and ran before the neighbours could come.

The matter was reported at the Zone 5 police station and the locally fabricated pistol was also handed over to the police.?