Robbers attack UI female hostel, cart away with students phones, laptops, others

The female block of the Abdusalami Abubakar Postgraduate Hall, University of Ibadan, was attacked in the early hours of today by robbers armed with machetes and other dangerous weapons .

The armed robbers arrived the hostel at about 2am, tied up the security guards and carted away belongings of the female students .

A female student who witnessed the incident said after tying the security guards up , the armed robbers moved from one room to another breaking down doors and demanding for money, phones, laptops and other personal belongings.

They came in around 2 am. They were about seven. They were paired in twos, moving from a room to another, collecting people’s phones and laptops. They knew about this hostel, and they were so comfortable. They had time to operate.

They tied up our security man. One of the two males who were alarmed and decided to come from their block to see the situation was macheted on the head and the other received a cut on his hand, she said.

Another student said,

They had a struggle entering into the hostel because the security in New Hall is actually tight. The bang we heard when the door was axed down already told us that something was coming for us. But we didnt know what it was and we were wondering where the securities and potters were at this time.

On the ground floor where I stay only two rooms were not affected, the rest were. I don’t know what happened on the first floor, but so far, I’ve heard that three rooms were affected.

Some weeks ago similar robbery incident occurred at the Obafemi Awolowo Hall of the same school.