ARMED bandits, yesterday, attacked the Benin-City residence of the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and governorship candidate of the party in the 2012 governorship election in Edo State, Mr Solomon Edebiri.
The bandits, numbering five, allegedly used machete to attack three persons, including the night guard, and left them in a pool of blood. It was learnt that the suspected armed robbers stormed the compound at about 2:15am during a downpour.
They came by scaling the fence and tied the night guard to a tree inside the compound after the machate attack. Then they went straight to the uncompleted building inside the compound where staff and relations of the ANPP leader were sleeping.
While yelling and threatening their victims to bring out the money at home, they used machete and bottles to inflict serious injuries on two persons in the room and started ransacking the entire building until they took to their heels when a mobile police man within the premise shot at them.
There are indications that some of the robbers may have escaped with bullet wounds. When Sunday Vanguard visited the compound, there was a pool of blood in one of the rooms while the victims were rushed to a nearby hospital. The security guard and one of the staff were in critical condition.
Edebiri, who was not at home when the incident occurred, said, “I cannot place their reasons for coming because I don’t keep cash at home. The state of criminality has increased seriously in Benin and it is scary. I want to appeal to the police to do something seriously and urgently too.
If we are not lucky those three people would have been killed. And we are still praying because they had deep cuts and are still critical in hospital. I will allow the police to do their investigation so as to ascertain their true motive”.
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