Bandits Raid NAN Staff Residence In Owerri

Bandits have raided the residence of Mr Francis Onyeukwu, a principal correspondent serving at the News Agency of Nigeria Owerri office and stole his property valued at over N450, 000.
The attack occurred at his residence located within Works Layout in Amakohia-Uratta Owerri area about noon when the journalist and his family members had left for work.
Onyeukwu, who took neighbours and relatives who thronged his apartment round, noted that the bandits stole everything they considered valuable in his room, that of his wife and children.
“What the criminals did not steal in my flat was what they considered less valuable to them, because they even drank water from my refrigerator and collected meat from my wife’s soup pots.
“They stole my 33 inches Sony Plasma television installed in my sitting room, LG home theatre, HP Laptop computer set, N42, 000 cash, cloths, and my wife’s Jewellry among others’’, he said.
Onyeukwu whose 1996 model of Toyota Camry car with registration number, Lagos : GG874EKY was stolen in May, 2011 where it was parked in a church during Sunday service, described yesterday’s incident as another painful reminder of life.
“This is another painful incident of theft I am recording as a journalist; the first was when my car was stolen in a church and yesterday’s attack was a lot more devastating to me due to the importance of  my laptop to me and the TV set to me as a newsman’’, he said.
Explaining further on how and when he learnt of the raid, Onyeukwu said, “at about 12:52pm, a  fellow tenant Mr Ugochukwu staying in flat number 6 telephoned to alert me that criminals made their ways into his flat using ‘fake or master key.’
He quoted Ugochukwu as saying that the criminals stole his satellite machine, dismantled his plasma TV, but were unable to remove it when the wife returned and saw the scattered apartment.
According to Onyeukwu, “after the call, I told Ugochukwu to check if my doors were locked and he (Ugochukwu) confirmed that the doors were properly locked.
“It was after the close of work at about 6pm that I returned, opened the doors and discovered that the bandits used master keys to open, cart away all my valuable and closed the doors’’, Onyeukwu said.