Never had a one on one encounter with an armed robber but I can't forget 2019, I had no phone then. Just a 10000mah powerbank and a rechargable radio.
There was no network in most corner of the room so I placed the radio and power bank in the window cos the radio was low and I'm charging it and also listening to radio till I forgot and slept off.
Woke up around past 1am and I noticed something was missing, alas they stole only the powerbank 😣

Not a good experience. Twice I was a victim. One in a popular eatery in Lagos. Second along Lag /Ib express at night.

Didn't sustain any injury. But the trauma. So tough I became scared whenever I perceived the aroma of pastries. Was that bad.

A gun to my head and the threat to "do it" with my girlfriend.Loss was minimal. Incident actually proved God's love for me. They tailed or trailed me in. But kept describing me even when I was before them. I wondered why they weren't seeing the man they targeted. People testified I was lucky after their departure.

We didn't marry eventually. Sara-Lee, I know you are reading this. Love.

YungTemy:
Na only God dey help person.

Damn! How they going to remove that. Just looking at it gives me chills.

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Just this morning like this so niger state new bussà, where i serve nysc , someone or people broke into my house cleared my appartment, well i prày God it is well with those people

Buddha3:
Lol.

Where I wan even start?

2011, I was doing my first year in Unical. Was hosting lunch at the back of the library with three other course mates. Three cultists walk up, slap us around some, take away my two android phones, wallet full of cash and my watch. They just sat two tables away afterwards, drinking with their girls from the content of my wallet. I was so enraged. Got a cab from the main gate to Eburutu army barracks close to Federal housing. A cultist friend with ties to the military lived there. Told him my ordeal, he drove me back to the school, gave me a revolver pistol and gave me a firm order to shoot the leader of the pack anywhere I pleased, once we saw them. Sure enough, these dudes were still on that table drinking with my money. I just stretched out, let one bullet loose to his left knee and the rest scattered. Took back my belongings from his pockets and we left him there, screaming and crying. Of course I was pretty shaken, but that experience left me with a lifelong memory. And I'm glad I had my flesh pound, there and then.

2013, I was out between 10pm and midnight, running my taxi services, since it was one of my sources of income then. This dude charters me to drop him at Nasarawa village around 8miles, Calabar. I always knew that place to be a rough slum with daredevil criminals, just didn't imagine I was ever going to encounter one. We get there, dude pulls a knife and tells me to kill the engine. First thought in my head was having to face the reality of losing my car to a robber. I turn it off, but as he makes to step out through his door, I quickly got my self-defence pistol from under my seat, and since it was quite dark, he didn't exactly get a detailed view of my movements. He walks over and I let one fly at close range. He got it at the shoulder and I quickly reversed and made out of that cesspit. Again, I was glad I learnt my lesson from that 2011 incident. I never went to uncomfortable places or drove at nights without my self-defence gadget I got from that my frat dude.

Got tons of these experiences, but meh! Welcome to Nigeria!

Guy, you sef get mind o... About that first encounter, did you not have any cult encounter again in school? The person you shot, did he not mark your face?

Before I share mine, I remember one story I read here on Nairaland, where one guy talked about his brother and him being robbed at Mile 2 Bridge. He said his brother was stabbed in the neck...the brother was a big dude, so he struggled to carry the guy to the hospital, and the guy died on the way. That image stuck in my head. Some people bring sorrow to others because they are too lazy to work. Sad.

My own story isn't gruesome. I dropped along Lagos-Ibadan express, at Sagamu junction. I was going to Ijebu Ode...a friend was meant to pick me up at that junction. It was dark...around 7:30pm. I saw this full family of like 6 (wife, husband and 4 young kids) a few meters from me hurrying to cross the express. I was wondering why they were so scared till I felt a machete at my neck...I remember clearly, the thing was shining in the dark. The guy with the machete to my neck told me he would slice my neck if I moved, and then I felt hands in my pocket. They were kids mehn! Teenagers. The oldest one was the one with the machete to my neck, and he couldn't be more than 19.

After taking my wallet, phone, watch and everything I had on me, they asked me to go. I walked away, slowly, towards the bridge that went to the other side of the road. The guy with the machete hit me on the head with it and asked me to run. I ran to the bridge and was lucky to see someone stop and take me to Shagamu town. Luckily for me, I had one of my ATMs in my breast pocket.

Angelfrost:


Jungle justice only happens occasionally when criminals slip up or lose guard!

Can you lynch and mob a well armed robber?!!

Community Policing has to happen if nothing can be done at state or national level...! There is no other way around it!

Communities should rally round and drag their chairmen, lawmakers, and elite sons, who can in turn put pressure on the state government! This is not rocket science!

Criminals need to see a deterrent, and nothing deters them than the presence of security.

Even in far sophisticated United States, petty robbery and full glare armed robbery happens.
What are you talking about.

Maybe less or more compared to here, that's for you to decide.

Buddha3:


Lol.

Trust me, if I was one, I won't even give you an inkling into it.

Anybody who schooled in Unical and Crutech between 2005 and 2013 will tell you how perpetually scary those environments were. Back then, if you were not a habitual church goer, you needed to be part of one cult or the other, to be able to peacefully survive your school years. Guns were toys of identity on the streets. And it was even worse if you were considered to be a student who was comfortable or well to do. I was driving to school from my first year and using the same vehicle for commercial purposes in the evenings. And I liked to dress well. Plus I liked having beers at the back of the Unical library. That was unarguably one of the temples of Crime in Calabar South. Initiations into various cult groups were being carried out in the river that flows behind that library, on a weekly basis.

Trust me, my best survival was that gun I owned and the immunity I enjoyed courtesy of one of the cult capons who was a very good senior friend. I wasn't a church goer and certainly not a cultist, but I had peace in school.

I didn’t Say Anything Bro, Be Safe Bro.
One Love!

Mine happened years ago back in school. It was a close one though. Few guys came to my room to watch movies. So I left my place and went to my girl's place to have me some quiet. Of course, she'd travelled and gave me a spare key.
They robbed the guys in my room that night, took their phones and laptops they came to charge.
I was quite mad because they took my gold necklace which was gifted to me by my big bro and Rexona antiperspirant.
They also took someone's rechargeable clipper.

Theboss001:


Even in far sophisticated United States, petty robbery and full glare armed robbery happens.
What are you talking about.

Maybe less or more compared to here, that's for you to decide.

Okay... So, the crime rate and reports are fine??! Like, there is no cause for alarm??!

Cos I don't understand what your comparison is about! Why the need for such comparison, to begin with?!!

Is it bad if Nigeria becomes crime-free?!! Is it impossible?!!!

Since when did United States become the standard for everything in the world?!! How about Luxembourg, Holland, Switzerland, etc?!!

Una must always dig for excuses in everything! SMH!!!

Ombudsman1:
SAD REALLY. I HAVEN'T BEEN IN SUCH SITUATION AND DON'T PLAN EVER BEING IN ONE.

A GREAT MANY OF THESE COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED BY GETTING DOGS. CRIMINALS FEAR DOGS BUT NIGERIANS ARE TOO IGNORANT OR WEAK TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.

I GOT MYSELF TWO FIERCE LOOKING ROTTWEILERS. I DON'T NEED TO SAY MORE AT THIS POINT

lol bro, I’ve got 5 bro. Recently moved into a new compound, people said the place is notorious for armed robbery so I got myself 5 adult Caucasian Shepherd dogs. Believe me I spent a fortune acquiring these dogs and taking care of them but it’s better I have them than staying and get robbed since we don’t allow firearms over here. Every evening I take two dogs on a short stroll, one day I came out of my gate and see two guys all run into an incompleted building beside my house and into the bush from there and that same evening I had to leash all my 5 dogs and take them strolling to the very end of the street, I made dem understand that I have not 2 but 5 heavy dogs that can Bleep any intruder up. Since that day omo I’ve lived peacefully. Intact the only headache I get is the occasional dog fights

naijaboy756:
And some of the useless thieves will be here reading this chat and smoking..

wicked souls

So true.

Buddha3:
Lol.

Where I wan even start?

[b]2011, I was doing my first year in Unical. Was hosting lunch at the back of the library with three other course mates. Three cultists walk up, slap us around some, take away my two android phones, wallet full of cash and my watch. They just sat two tables away afterwards, drinking with their girls from the content of my wallet. I was so enraged. Got a cab from the main gate to Eburutu army barracks close to Federal housing. A cultist friend with ties to the military lived there. Told him my ordeal, he drove me back to the school, gave me a revolver pistol and gave me a firm order to shoot the leader of the pack anywhere I pleased, once we saw them. Sure enough, these dudes were still on that table drinking with my money. I just stretched out, let one bullet loose to his left knee and the rest scattered. Took back my belongings from his pockets and we left him there, screaming and crying. Of course I was pretty shaken, but that experience left me with a lifelong memory. And I'm glad I had my flesh pound, there and then.[/b]

2013, I was out between 10pm and midnight, running my taxi services, since it was one of my sources of income then. This dude charters me to drop him at Nasarawa village around 8miles, Calabar. I always knew that place to be a rough slum with daredevil criminals, just didn't imagine I was ever going to encounter one. We get there, dude pulls a knife and tells me to kill the engine. First thought in my head was having to face the reality of losing my car to a robber. I turn it off, but as he makes to step out through his door, I quickly got my self-defence pistol from under my seat, and since it was quite dark, he didn't exactly get a detailed view of my movements. He walks over and I let one fly at close range. He got it at the shoulder and I quickly reversed and made out of that cesspit. Again, I was glad I learnt my lesson from that 2011 incident. I never went to uncomfortable places or drove at nights without my self-defence gadget I got from that my frat dude.

Got tons of these experiences, but meh! Welcome to Nigeria!

You get mind o! You didn't think they would come back for revenge? I mean the first story.

My experience late last year.

While at work, my room was burgled.

2 laptops stolen, a small Nokia Asha phone, my flash drive, some other periferrals, opening my new phone package thinking I kept it there, including food stuffs and cooking items like oil.

It was the first time all my life I was attacked at such scale.

I hate thieves, with passion. This is including yahoo boys and politicians.

One reason I hated Tinubu so much, that I would rather vote Lucifer I don't know.

“Una poor like this and una still they close door”— thats the ranting of a drunken lad not up to 18 years old in a group of armed robbers that raided our street on that fateful day. I was a newly wedded medic coming from NYSC discahrge. I managed a room and parlour for the starters with wify in a newly built house somewhere in Lagos. We were considering buying furniture and other things to make life a bit easy and settle down with family. The robbers struck in the midst of that. Practically nothing was in the house except a small TV and a mattress to rest in. We heard all the noise on the street and knew they were robbers. So, we were just waiting for our turn to be dealth with by children of devil. And soon they banged and brought down the front doors. They robbed our neighbours with merciless abandon. They beat the hell out of our female neighbour who had just a housegirl with her.
Then the loud bang on our door came. My heart was racing faster than that of Tobi Amusan when she was breaking the world records in 100 metres huddles. I opened the door and waited to the evil incarnate to enter. Wifey had cowered somewhere behind me, shaking like Christmas chicken. And there came the young devil carrying a stick and a bottle, half naked and sweating like salah ram going to the slaughter. He came in a little bewildered. I was wondering what was amiss. Then he uttered the words up there. I immediate became relieved inside me. I almost chuckled but kept my cool. The next thing he asked was “ where is my money?” I went into inner room and quickly brought out 300 naira. He took it without muttering a word and turned round to leave. I quickly proceeded to lock the door. I was wondering wether to laugh or cry or chuckle. I just couldn’t believe what happened. But I thank God for His mercy on us that night. I heard many people were raped on that street. It was a night blacker than the darkness of the night. Since then we started doing vigilante work every night, after coming from a hard day’s work. It was not easy. But thank God we survived that terrible incidence.

Angelfrost:


Okay... So, the crime rate and reports are fine??! Like, there is no cause for alarm??!

Cos I don't understand what your comparison is about! Why the need for such comparison, to begin with?!!

Is it bad if Nigeria becomes crime-free?!! Is it impossible?!!!

Since when did United States become the standard for everything in the world?!! How about Luxembourg, Holland, Switzerland, etc?!!

Una must always dig for excuses in everything! SMH!!!

You are overreacting chief,
I said it not to compare crime rate, but for your assumption that community policing is the onus of stopping the menace....it isn't.
Quite impossible in naija too to stop, not in a 100 years time. (Could be curtailed slightly...Yes!!)

And equally never applauding or cheering armed robbery and giving people traumas to continue, but you have to be realistic to the possibility of it stopping to a great extent, in naija of all places, Stop it chief.

And lastly yes United States is the greatest country on earth, not your Luxembourg, not your Switzerland, not your Singapore or Dubai.
Not by paper talk, their doings says it all, wonder why nearly everyone want to be there, it's not rocket science.

olab059:


You get mind o! You didn't think they would come back for revenge? I mean the first story.

I thought about it initially. But the guy who took me there, gave me the pistol for payback and later gave me my first gun, was actually respected by them all, even rival cults.

So I had that immunity due to his influence.

NACE13:
Mine happened years ago back in school. It was a close one though. Few guys came to my room to watch movies. So I left my place and went to my girl's place to have me some quiet. Of course, she'd travelled and gave me a spare key.
They robbed the guys in my room that night, took their phones and laptops they came to charge.
I was quite mad because they took my gold necklace which was gifted to me by my big bro and Rexona antiperspirant.
They also took someone's rechargeable clipper.

Those guys would be like, chai! Why I no kukuma stay for my house.

Theboss001:


You are overreacting chief,
I said it not to compare crime rate, but for your assumption that community policing is the onus of stopping the menace....it isn't.
Quite impossible in naija too to stop, not in a 100 years time. (Could be curtailed slightly...Yes!!)

And equally never applauding or cheering armed robbery and giving people traumas to continue, but you have to be realistic to the possibility of it....

And lastly yes United States is the greatest country on earth, not your Luxembourg, not your Switzerland, not your Singapore or Dubai.
Not by paper talk, their doings says it all, wonder why nearly everyone want to be there, it's not rocket science.

Honestly, I'm not overreacting sir.

The tweets above say it all!

I have witnessed community policing diminish and even stop robbery and kidnappings in a notorious area... The serenity there has been on for the better part of 4 years!

Ordinary local vigilante in my village put an end to notorious cult activities and petty thefts! I kid you not!

So, what are we not saying?!!

That America continues to be the terrorist capital of the universe with ridiculous crime stats and mass shootings, doesn't mean crime prevention is rocket science!

If we want to cut down crime rate in Nigeria by over 70% today, we can!!! Period!

sharpwriter:

Guy, you sef get mind o... About that first encounter, did you not have any cult encounter again in school? The person you shot, did he not mark your face?

Oh he did. He actually knew my face. But the very next day after that incident, that my frat dude took me to a meeting of frat heads that was held somewhere at Ikot Ansa and introduced me to them. I bought about 8 bottles of different spirits for that meeting. So I became a familiar amongst them, hence immune to so many things. Then I was one ot the few drivers who could comfortably drive a taxi around Cali municipality even up till 4am. And the same guy made me swear to him never to join any frats and in exchange he'll always look out for me. I promised, and he kept his end of the bargain.

drlateef:
“Una poor like this and una still they close door”— thats the ranting of a drunken lad not up to 18 years old in a group of armed robbers that raided our street on that fateful day. I was a newly wedded medic coming from NYSC discahrge. I managed a room and parlour for the starters with wify in a newly built house somewhere in Lagos. We were considering buying furniture and other things to make life a bit easy and settle down with family. The robbers struck in the midst of that. Practically nothing was in the house except a small TV and a mattress to rest in. We heard all the noise on the street and knew they were robbers. So, we were just waiting for our turn to be dealth with by children of devil. And soon they banged and brought down the front doors. They robbed our neighbours with merciless abandon. They beat the hell out of our female neighbour who had just a housegirl with her.
Then the loud bang on our door came. My heart was racing faster than that of Tobi Amusan when she was breaking the world records in 100 metres huddles. I opened the door and waited to the evil incarnate to enter. Wifey had cowered somewhere behind me, shaking like Christmas chicken. And there came the young devil carrying a stick and a bottle, half naked and sweating like salah ram going to the slaughter. He came in a little bewildered. I was wondering what was amiss. Then he uttered the words up there. I immediate became relieved inside me. I almost chuckled but kept my cool. The next thing he asked was “ where is my money?” I went into inner room and quickly brought out 300 naira. He took it without muttering a word and turned round to leave. I quickly proceeded to lock the door. I was wondering wether to laugh or cry or chuckle. I just couldn’t believe what happened. But I thank God for His mercy on us that night. I heard many people were raped on that street. It was a night blacker than the darkness of the night. Since then we started doing vigilante work every night, after coming from a hard day’s work. It was not easy. But thank God we survived that terrible incidence.

So the guy was okay with you giving him just 300 naira?

Buddha3:


I thought about it initially. But the guy who took me there, gave me the pistol for payback and later gave me my first gun, was actually respected by them all, even rival cults.

So I had that immunity due to his influence.

Okay. Now I understand.

Been robbed twice. First one in school hostel laptop 3 phones and 20k gone. On their way out they shot near my leg. Second one at home I wanted to looked at the face of the robbers as i about to lie down . One of them used his pistol to burst my face. The scar still dey my face

sharpwriter:

Guy, you sef get mind o... About that first encounter, did you not have any cult encounter again in school? The person you shot, did he not mark your face?

If I say the story looks fake now,it wound sound like oversabi.
Red flags:He was handling a gun for the first time and could shoot accurately.
The guy didn't die and his colleagues scampered and throughout the rest of his years in school,the op was not touched.
No matter who you are and how well connected,there would be be one or two hardened members of the cultist group he shot that would plan something.To avoid suspicion,they usually invite members from other schools to carry out the revenge.But for him to sound like no one acted,sounds unlikely.
He also narrated he normally keeps a service pistol in 2013 when doing his night cab runs,while ostensibly still in school.How did he get it and what is the chance he hadn't been stopped and searched throughout the period, particularly since that 10pm-12mn is usually time when police teams on road blocks or patrol stop motorists and carry out searches.
The whole experiences were either fabricated,coined from a narration by someone else or leaving out some details.

Buddha3:
Lol.

Where I wan even start?

2011, I was doing my first year in Unical. Was hosting lunch at the back of the library with three other course mates. Three cultists walk up, slap us around some, take away my two android phones, wallet full of cash and my watch. They just sat two tables away afterwards, drinking with their girls from the content of my wallet. I was so enraged. Got a cab from the main gate to Eburutu army barracks close to Federal housing. A cultist friend with ties to the military lived there. Told him my ordeal, he drove me back to the school, gave me a revolver pistol and gave me a firm order to shoot the leader of the pack anywhere I pleased, once we saw them. Sure enough, these dudes were still on that table drinking with my money. I just stretched out, let one bullet loose to his left knee and the rest scattered. Took back my belongings from his pockets and we left him there, screaming and crying. Of course I was pretty shaken, but that experience left me with a lifelong memory. And I'm glad I had my flesh pound, there and then.

2013, I was out between 10pm and midnight, running my taxi services, since it was one of my sources of income then. This dude charters me to drop him at Nasarawa village around 8miles, Calabar. I always knew that place to be a rough slum with daredevil criminals, just didn't imagine I was ever going to encounter one. We get there, dude pulls a knife and tells me to kill the engine. First thought in my head was having to face the reality of losing my car to a robber. I turn it off, but as he makes to step out through his door, I quickly got my self-defence pistol from under my seat, and since it was quite dark, he didn't exactly get a detailed view of my movements. He walks over and I let one fly at close range. He got it at the shoulder and I quickly reversed and made out of that cesspit. Again, I was glad I learnt my lesson from that 2011 incident. I never went to uncomfortable places or drove at nights without my self-defence gadget I got from that my frat dude.

Got tons of these experiences, but meh! Welcome to Nigeria!

Rambo!

Angelfrost:


Honestly, I'm not overreacting sir.

The tweets above say it all!

I have witnessed community policing diminish and even stop robbery and kidnappings in a notorious area... The serenity there has been on for the better part of 4 years!

Ordinary local vigilante in my village put an end to notorious cult activities and petty thefts! I kid you not!

So, what are we not saying?!!

That America continues to be the terrorist capital of the universe with ridiculous crime stats and mass shootings, doesn't mean crime prevention is rocket science!

If we want to cut down crime rate in Nigeria by over 70% today, we can!!! Period!

I get your point though.
You could be right.
More knowledge to your caput, more puxxy to your abunna. ✌

Buddha3:


Oh he did. He actually knew my face. But the very next day after that incident, that my frat dude took me to a meeting of frat heads that was held somewhere at Ikot Ansa and introduced me to them. I bought about 8 bottles of different spirits for that meeting. So I became a familiar amongst them, hence immune to so many things. Then I was one ot the few drivers who could comfortably drive a taxi around Cali municipality even up till 4am. And the same guy made me swear to him never to join any frats and in exchange he'll always look out for me. I promised, and he kept his end of the bargain.

Wow! Your dude did a perfectly finished work for you. Soar on man.

ManWater:
Public Execution by Firing Squad should be reintroduced.
The Public need to witness the reward of armed Robbery.
That's one way to deter Armed Robbers.

This type of execution need to be reintroduce

sharpwriter:

Guy, you sef get mind o... About that first encounter, did you not have any cult encounter again in school? The person you shot, did he not mark your face?

same thought

Jagermeister:


Rambo!

Lol.

Forget the impression Nigerians create that Lagos is wild and if you haven't lived there, you never see life. Growing up in Calabar South during the Donald Duke years, you'll have experiences that will make an average Lagosian wet himself. Abi na Bayelsa creeks during the same period? Or even Eleme in PH that year?

It's not possible to grow on the South South streets during those years and come out as a complete adult today, except you were extra tough or had parents who shielded you from reality. Do you have any idea how many University students Donald Duke had sentenced to death by firing squad over cultism, manslaughter, assassinations? Even Donald Duke himself was once attacked at Anantigha while he drove with his convoy. The entire motorcade was sprayed with bullets. It took extra efforts and his own personal juju for him to have survived that incident.

Turns out there's a reason Donald Duke is called "the walking Indian Shrine of the South South".

That’s why I always move around with conc acid and dagger. I promise to send any of them to God in seconds

olab059:


Okay. Now I understand.

I find it hard to believe that you were not a member. Anyway, your blood is cold indeed.