Some yet-to-be identified gunmen, on Thursday, July 29, 2021, invaded Nasarawa State Ministry of Finance, Budget, and Planning in Lafia, and catered away the sum of N100 million at gunpoint.
ABN TV learnt that the robbery took place at the ministry’s office, which is adjacent to that of the State Accountant General, where security is ‘very tight’.
According to an eyewitness, the gunmen trailed officials of the ministry from a commercial bank, where they went to withdraw cash for the payment of casual workers.
“But it was in the ministry’s premises that the well-armed gunmen snatched the N100 million from the finance ministry’s officials while trying to dislodge the cash from the vehicle that was conveying it to the cash room.
“In the process of snatching the said amount of money, the gunmen shot sporadically in the air that the ministry’s officials carrying the money and other staff of the ministry within the premises laid down low paving the way for the gunmen to snatch the N100 million effortlessly,” the eyewitness was quoted as saying.
Confirming the robbery attack, Haruna Ogbole, Nasarawa’s Commissioner for Finance, Budget, and Planning, said an investigation is ongoing to nab the culprit.
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