Armed robbers, on Monday robbed a popular supermarket, Uzorbest Supermarket Limited at the Onu Asata Junction of Enugu metropolis, carting away goods worth over one million naira.
The robbers carted away no less than 18 bags of 50kg foreign and local rice, 10 bags of 10kg rice; 30 cartons of noodles and five bags of 20kg semolina.
The criminals also took away four giant cooking gas cylinders from a neighbouring shop and seemed unperturbed by the possible arrival of security men.
The storekeeper of the supermarket, Sunday Ngwoke said the robbers who came in three Hilux jeeps in a commando-style at about 6:00 p.m., numbered about 15 men and wore black face masks.
Ngwoke explained that “At first I thought they were government officials that came to check for the standard of the products.”
“I struggled to stop one of them from taking the first bag of rice but when I saw the big gun one of them was holding, I restricted myself.
“They parked the whole items I mentioned to you earlier and loaded it into the three Hilux jeeps as commanded by one of them.
“Before they left, they started shooting sporadically into the air and scared everybody away.”
However, he expressed gratitude to God that “no one was hurt throughout the incident and they did not take a kobo from the supermarket, just the foodstuffs and the four giant cooking gas cylinders from our neighbour,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Enugu PPRO, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, said that the command was yet to get a brief of the incident from the Divisional Police Officer at Ogui Division promising that “the command will establish contact with the DPO in the area and get full details of the incident,” and gave the assurance that the command “will issue an official statement on the incident after being briefed by the Ogui DPO”
