Tina Amanda
On Sunday night at about 9 pm, some hoodlums suspected to be cultists mounted a roadblock at Uruala/Abakiliki junction, Mile 1 Diobu, Port Harcourt, and robbed passersby and motorists for over thirty minutes without police Intervention.
We gathered that the hoodlums also invaded and robbed shops at Lumumba street in Mile 1 Diobu on Sunday night.
One of the victims Tony Dike who narrated his ordeal in the hands of the criminal to our Correspondent, said while driving through the Abakaliliki/Uruala street, the hoodlums numbering over fifty (50) in their black-on-black attire stopped his car with heavy stones.
“They shot in the air and said I should come down from the car, and they flogged me with a machete. They collected my phone and the money I came back with from work, one hundred and eighty thousand naira.
“At that moment, they said I should come down from the car. When I saw they wanted to collect the vehicle. I had to put my car in reverse as if I wanted to come down from the car; four of them tried to enter the car, I had to speed off.
“I had to rush down to the Police station to make my entry, and I made my entry at Mile 1 Police station. They were holding guns, knives, broken bottles, stones, axes, and all sorts of weapons and are more than fifty in number.
“The place was dark; there was no light when the incident happened to me; another Jeep was coming behind. The Jeep driver saw the incident and tried to reverse and entered gutter; with the force I moved with, I do not know what happened to the Jeep guy.”
Meanwhile, residents of the area have lamented the spate of armed robbery in the vicinity since the cult war between factions of Degbam cult groups started.
