Mr. Yekeen Nurudeen, one of the New Telegraph correspondents in Abuja Bureau, was last Sunday attacked by a four-man armed robbery gang at his residence in Garam, a boundary town between the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Niger state.
According to the terribly traumatized journalists, the dare devil robbers who scaled the fence of his house to gain access at about 9:45 pm were armed with sophisticated guns and a pistol.
He said the robbers who on entering his house started demanding for money also asked for the key of his Toyota Camry car adding that they ordered him to where the car was packed to verify if the car was protected by security code.
“I was with my wife in the sitting room at about 9:45pm, watching a channel on DSTV and charging my phones and IPad for Monday’s work when suddenly I heard my Caucasian dog barking. I peeped through the window, I saw someone trying to jump into the compound through the fence”
Before I could understand what was happening, four heavily armed men were already inside my house demanding for money, dollars and threatening to kill me and my wife”
Yekeen, who covers Ministry of Education, Labour and FCT Minister’s office for New Telegraph further revealed to our correspondent that the armed robbers threatened to kill him and his wife if he did not give them money.
He said after handing over the money he had kept for his family upkeep ahead of the new week, the robbers took his two Torch BlackBerry phones, a Techno Pad II IPad, as well as another IPad belonging to his wife, her jewelries and other items.
“They took my car and I have my laptop inside the car, my two digital recorders, digital camera, my international passport was also inside the car because I used it recently.” he said
He disclosed that his hands and legs were tied by the robbers while his mouth was also gagged when the robbers finished the operation even as the same thing was done to his wife while his seven year old son watched as they were tying him down.
“When they finished, after one of them had kicked my head and face severally asking if I didn’t know they were coming, they tied my hands backward, my legs and also my mouth and locked me in my bedroom.
My seven year-old son woke up in the process and watched as they were tying me. They also did the same thing to my wife and locked her in her room with two kids who were crying. It was only my elder daughter who did not wake up throughout the operation” said Yekeen whose one side of his head was swollen from the kicks.
The robbers, according to robbed three other houses in his neighborhood and left a vigilante member dead after an operation that lasted about five hours.
He said the incident has been reported at Kuduru Police station and Sabon Wuse Police station noting that no clue has been heard about the stolen car.
