A gang of armed
Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 attacked travellers on the
busy Abuja-Keffi Expressway, making away with valuables and a huge
amount of cash.
According to an eyewitness report by Punch,
the robbery took place at 10am along the busy highway close to a
village called Barde, after Gidan Waya in Kaduna State, a few kilometres
from Jos, Plateau state capital.
The robbers numbering about ten, with
five of them wielding dangerous weapons, including guns and machetes,
came from the bush, stopped vehicles and ordered passengers to lie
facedown.
The newspaper’s correspondent, who was
in a vehicle which was a few distance from them, saw market women and
others frisked at gunpoint.
Ironically, the incident took place between two police checkpoints.
The robbers fled into the bush after 30
minutes of successful operation, when they sighted some soldiers from
Keffi in Nasarawa state.
Some of the victims claimed the robbers were Fulani as they understood the language they conversed in.
A woman who was on a business trip to Jos for her boss wept uncontrollably, having lost a huge amount of money.
She begged that our correspondent should
relay the incident to her boss, and from his exclamation, it was
obvious that a big money has gone.
Read more at Punch.
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