Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have attacked a point-of-sales terminal in Zaki Local Government Area (LGA) of Bauchi State.
NIGERIACRIME gathered that the armed robbers, who took advantage of the rush by resudents on Friday night to beat the deadline for returning the old naira notes, shot four people, including a PoS operator during the operation.
Recall that the Central Bank of Nigeria had initially fixed the deadline for the Naira swap for January 31 before it was extended till February 10, following criticism from different corners in the country.
The victims are receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre, Azare.
Narrating his ordeal, a PoS operator, identified as Abdullahi Haruna, said, “I had a bag of money with me. They asked me to give them the money at gunpoint, or else they would kill me, so I gave them the bag full of money.”
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One of the other victims, Lamaran Bappah, said he went to the terminal to swap his old notes with new ones.
“It was money I saved in preparation for my marriage,” he said.
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, visited the victims in the hospital where he sympathised with them.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Aminu Alhassan, also noted that an arrest had been made.
The governor and his team were also at the scene of an explosion caused by dynamites at a construction warehouse in Azare.
Properties were destroyed but no casualty was recorded. More dynamites have since been found on the site as the police expand their search of the area.
Meanwhile, the governor paid a visit to the palace of the Emir of Katagum and the District Head of Zaki to commiserate with them over the incidents.