Gunmen attack NYSC Lodge in Akwa Ibom, rob, rape female occupants

 

Shooters on Tuesday night attacked Corpers' Lodge situated along Udo Ekong Ekwere road, off Information Drive in Uyo local government area of Akwa Ibom State robbed and raped the female tenants.

It was accumulated that the shooters raged the Lodge by 1pm Tuesday night on a tricycle otherwise known as Keke na Napep, trucking away resources including Laptops, telephones and money.

A portion of the corps members who talked with newsmen Wednesday morning lamented that no assistance came from anyplace during the assault in spite of cry for help.

One of the Corps members who distinguished himself as Emeka Emmanuel said "They arrived on a tricycle, popularly called Keke and immediately started operation. They beamed high intensity torchlight everywhere and pounced on every door with heavy iron and threatened to shoot us if we fail to cooperate".

A female Corps members, who likewise talked on state of anonymity, while fighting back tears, said her telephones, PC, cash were strongly taken from her after the gangsters got access into her room from the back door.

“You know at that period of the night, most of us females, we used to sleep naked and the suddeness of the attack caught us unprepared. They beamed the torch through the window and threatened to shoot if the door is not quickly opened”, she explained.

 

“I have never heard of this anywhere in Nigeria, even in the North, where insecurity is at the highest peak, that Corpers could be deliberately targetted, raped and robbed by criminals at gun point. Is it because we are not from Akwa Ibom that no one could hear our shouts and come to save us?”, another female colleague, lamented.

Mr. Nsikak Ibanga, a night monitor at the State Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists which is situated inverse the corpers stop said " I raised caution by stirring things up around town support points holding the reproduced NUJ hall. The sound resonated across the entire region however no reaction".

Another neighbor, Bassey Offiong, said "when I heard the attack and the outcry of the Corpers, I quicky reached out to the Police at Ikot Akpanabia Command, which is very close here, but they arrived a little late, after the criminals had finished and left in their tricycle

Likewise the Youth Leader of the area, Comrade Godwin Okpo, pinned unending crooks activites around communities on the breakdown of inside security coordinated by the local occupants.

“I used to go round from house to house to collect monetary contributions for the night vigilante group to secure the area at night, but suddenly they started accusing me of embezzling their money. So there was nothing I could do again.

“When I heard the incident late in the night around I: 00am this morning (yesterday), I moved to the place but since I was alone, there was nothing I could do. I have told them (residents) that once it is midnight, they should off their generators so we can hear what’s happening in the neighborhoods”, Okpo stressed.

At the point when a few newsmen reached the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Odiko MacDon, he said he was yet to be completely informed on the occurrence, focusing, "I don’t have any information about the incident but i will find out and get across to you".