Three persons including a journalist, Olubunmi Afuye, a policeman and an Okada rider were shot dead during a bank robbery in llara-Mokin, lfedore council area of Ondo state.

Afuye was employed at the Elizade University as the institution’s spokesman less than six months ago. He was a radio journalist before his recent appointment.

The third victim according to eye witness account was a motorcyclist operator popularly known as Okada rider.

Vanguard gathered that the hoodlums robbed a branch of a commercial bank in Ilara Mokin community.

The robbers on arrival at the bank blew open the bank’s bullet-proof door with dynamite before they gained entrance into the banking hall at the peak hour.

Eyewitness account said that the Okada rider and the Journalist were passing by when they ran into the robbers during the operation and were killed by strayed bullets.

Vanguard gathered that the policeman was killed by the dynamite used by the bandits to blow open the bulletproof bank door.

A customer of the bank who spoke with newsmen said the robbers were six in number.

He said that when the robbers attacked the bank at about 3 pm and started shooting sporadically into the air to scare the bank customers.

According to him; “I was inside the bank when they (robbers) came, immediately all of us lied down, they started shouting where is the manager! Where is the manager!

“So they later got the key of the vault and packed the money there but they were not satisfied with what they saw, they also opened the Automated Teller Machine, but there was not much money there.

“This infuriated them and they shouted where is the money, it seems what they got did not satisfy them.

“After that, they took the money and went out angrily shooting to escape the scene.”

Police image-maker in the state, Tee-Leo Ikoro, confirmed the three casualties

Ikoro said that policemen detectives had been deployed in the scene by the state police commissioner, Bolaji Salami

He added that investigation had commenced.

The authorities of Elizade could not be reached to comment on the ugly incident.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/journalist-policeman-okada-rider-killed-in-ondo-bank-robbery/amp/?relatedposts_hit=1&relatedposts_origin=1619944&relatedposts_position=0

Watch the video on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRXbSZ5HWml/?utm_medium=copy_link

What a horrible way to die.

Nigeria is now the wild wild west

Those with guns just take what they want

May God help/save you if they want your life

Policemen are now endangered species in Nigeria.

RIP to the dead.

God heal our land and put an end to the incessant bloodsheds.

This is one of the reasons I don't pity them when they become victims of Jungle justice

Operation lasted for several hours and no security operatives showed up but let them hear of peaceful protest a thousand of them will be on ground to disrupt it. Nawa for this country

UBA

Ondo State & Bank Robbery!

The car

I thought the entrance doors in banks are bullet proof. E be like say na bomb dem carry go rob this time o.

Olubunmi Afuye... That name rings bell.

The society has gone to the dogs.

Why do people always tamper with crime scenes

And another one... If these had happened in the South East, dis thread for don explode since as Igbos will b blamed and the South East will be painted as Somalia

Nigeria has become Devils playground..

With Apc be sure to wake with negative news on media.

O ga

Loading...

Pathetic. Nigeria, which way?

Buhdeuce:
I thought the entrance doors in banks are bullet proof. E be like say na bomb dem carry go rob this time o.

.... According to reports, the robbers used explosives to gain entry into the banking hall and later escaped with an undisclosed sum of money....

Just cos of money

Olubunmi Afuye is gone oh geez... That golden voice of Orange Fm is no more. Sad

Because of money... But remember the bill always comes due.


Karma is real

I stayed in ilara mokin for about a year, its a remote area.. peaceful community,
any bank around that area is like a sitting duck. it is by the Akure-Ilesha express.

So much insecurity and hunger in afonja land but it is the North that is their problem. At least no robbery case in the North

Heartbreaking

The end is near

There's reward for all deeds

No action will be without punishment

Let's do good

hey God nahwaoooh
imagine I pray we never have such encounter.. the way bad things are happening this days make me weak about everything.. may God help us o

Taking what does not belong to you (whether life or a young girl’s flower or material things) is a trait of the devil. That includes fraudsters.

Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Remote towns are now the target of Arm robbers for Bank robbery.

RIP

Ondo and bank robbers

I hope their CCTV cameras were working

This is serious.