Gunmen suspected to be robbers robbing a Lagos bound bus nearly robbed Goernor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia STate. According Vanguard report, the men were robbing a suspected Lagos bound bus, when a pilot security van without siren and amber light approached the area.
According to a security operative in the city, who pleaded anonymity, “the robbers did not know that it was the governor. They thought that it could be the Army or police, but when they discovered it was the governor’s convoy with its full complement of security details, they took to their heels. On sighting the security vehicle, the gunmen were said to have opened fire without knowing that it was the governor’s convoy.
The incident took place near Immaculate Junction along the ever busy Aba-Owerri Road, as the governor was visisting Aba from Umuahia the state capital around 8p.m
the security details attached to the Governor's convoy fired sporadically which scared the robbers away though no life was lost.
“I do not think it was the governor that the hoodlums wanted to attack. It is just that the governor’s convoy that was returning from work without the usual siren and the revolving amber light, ran into them.” According to a security operative in the city, who pleaded anonymity said.
Contacted, spokesman of Abia State Police Command, DSP Ezekiel Onyeke said that he was yet to be fully briefed by the Chief Security Officer to the governor over the incident confirmed the incident, but debunked reports that the gunmen attacked the governor’s convoy. Onyeke
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