NAN Office Under Attack as Armed Robbers Brake into Offices and Cart Away Valuables

 

The Jos Zonal office of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) were on Thursday, invaded by armed robbers as the gunmen who scaled the office’s fence around 3.30 a.m., tied the security man on duty and broke into all the offices before carting away valuable items.

 

According to Premium Times, among the items stolen were NAN’s official camera, a Nikon D300, three HP laptops, two digital cameras, a voice recorder and many other personal effects of some staff.

 

Speaking with a correspondent the security man on duty, Yakubu Umar, said that he was on a routine patrol of the compound when he noticed the robbers breaking windows from behind the main building.

 

“It was after they left that I managed to crawl to the gate; my cries drew the attention of security men guarding other offices at the other side of the road, who later reached out to my colleagues,’’ he said.

 

The Zonal Manager, Ephraims Sheyin, described it as very shocking. “It is very sad and shocking; very devastating, really,’’ Sheyin said, adding that the matter had been reported to the Anglo-Jos Police Division which sent an investigating officer to the scene.

“There was even one very interesting angle to the incident when the police man came. He said that the rope used in tying the NAN security man is exactly the type used to tie the security men of PRTV, NTA College and AIT/Ray Power station, whose offices came under robbery attacks recently,’’ he said.

 

Emmanuel Nwoye, an Assistant Editor-In-Chief, who untied the security man in the morning, at about 6.55 a.m., said he met him “gasping for breath’’.

“So, I quickly looked for a knife and cut the ropes with which they tied his hands behind his back, and his legs,’’ he said.