Hoodlums armed with weapons, in the wee hours of Tuesday, invaded Hajiya Fati Housing Estate, by the FRSC office, in Abaji in the FCT and dispossessed residents of their valuables.
City & Crime had reported that hoodlums on December 19, 2022 invaded an estate behind FRSC office in Abaji, carting away valuables and phones, until men of the Directorate of State Security (DSS), who were alerted, shot into the air and forced the hoodlums to flee.
In the latest incident, a tenant in the estate, Solomon Japhet, said the hoodlums wielding daggers, cutlasses and knives, invaded the estate around 1:30am after scaling the fence.
He said they moved from one apartment to the other, dispossessing the occupants of their laptops, phones, money and jewelry, among other valuables.
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“The thieves used a hammer to destroy the protector of apartments and then went into rooms and robbed the tenants,’’ he added.
He said, “I saw one of the hoodlums through the window as they entered my neighbour’s apartment, and I silently entered the bathroom and phoned the DSS, who now shot into the air and scared them away,” he said.
One of the victims in the estate, Isaac Musa, said the hoodlums gained entrance into his apartment after destroying the front door’s burglary while he was asleep.
He said they made away with his two laptops and two phones, and an undisclosed sum of money, even as he said he thanked God that no injury was inflicted on him.
City & Crime learnt that the hoodlums had earlier invaded the private residence of a man identified as Malam Hamza, opposite Sabon-Gari Primary School, and dispossessed the occupants of their valuables before proceeding to the estate.
The spokeswoman of the FCT Police Command, DSP Adeh Josephine, was yet to confirm the incident as of the time of filing this report.
