A 'Mai Guard' (security man), employed to secure a house and its property, has been fingered as the brain behind a robbery attack on a nurse, Ukamaka Onyeka.
Narrating her experience in the hands of her employee named
Tunde, Onyeka said that the security man actually invited the armed
robbers to her household when her husband travelled out of Lagos.
"On
the fateful day, my husband travelled out of Lagos, leaving me, my
children, house-help and our security guard. I went to work and
returned late at night.
When I drove into
our compound, I did not expect that armed robbers were at our security
post. We have a dog but it did not bark.
Immediately,
I alighted from my car and entered my room, two men armed with knife
and cutlass pounced on me and warned that I must co-operate with them as
two others armed with guns were keeping watch at our gate.
One
of them placed a knife on my throat, threatening to slash it if I
failed to co-operate. When I saw that they meant business, I now showed
them where I kept a N100,000 which they collected. The money was for
my school fees.
They also collected
laptops, jewellery, wristwatch and mobile phones. They commanded me to
take them to my husband’s room. In the room, out of fear, I still
pointed to them the wardrobe where my husband kept money, they opened it
and collected the money in his box.
The
hoodlums, after collecting the money, still stabbed me on the neck.
They locked me in the room in the pool of my own blood. I bled for
about 20 minutes.
While the robbery was going on, the hoodlums were calling his names.
He
was also busy patrolling from one room to the other without the robbers
hurting him or even cautioning him. At a point, he came inside the room where I was tied and told the armed men not to kill me.
After the attack, my guard left in company with the robbers, but later resurfaced. I now accused him of inviting the robbers.
The
knife they used on me was my kitchen knife which Tunde collected from
me to peel oranges while the rope they used in tying me is also the one
he was using to hang his clothes. The pillow case they stuffed in my
mouth also belonged to him."
Tunde has
however been arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the
Lagos State Police Command and according to the police, he has admitted
to the crime.
