Members of a family in Abuja have been left traumatised after four men said to be wearing vests with the inscription “NPF” suspected to belong to the Nigeria Police Force, on Thursday, invaded their home in the Bako area of the Kwali Area Council.
According to a member of the family, who identified himself simply as Kehinde, the men drove into their family home around 7am without any arrest warrant, ransacking and taking away their personal belongings including phones, clothes and their mother’s handbag which he said contained about N300, 000.
He said the men later handcuffed two of his brothers and wanted to take them to an unknown destination but when their elder brother, Ahmed, resisted he was also thrown into the vehicle and taken along with them.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Kehinde said his mother was also assaulted during the operation.
He said, “Some men in police vests came to rob us in our house this morning when I went out to buy bread and a fried egg. While leaving the house, since it’s somewhere close, I left the door open because my friends were still sleeping in the room.
“My brother told me that when I left, four men wearing police vests arrived at our house in a grey Sienna car. They collected everybody’s phones and started picking our properties, our clothes and shoes.
“When they asked why they were harassing them, they didn’t answer, they began assaulting everyone and they didn’t answer, even slapped my elder brother.”
Kehinde said he and his mother later confronted the men suspected to be policemen.
He said when the men realised that his mother was attracting attention, they left his brothers off the hook and left with their belongings.
“When people started gathering, they quickly released my brothers, zoomed off and even shot at us.
“They still have our belongings that they took from our house. Till now, we don’t know where those men came from. We searched the police stations in Kwali and Gwagwalada but they said they don’t know them,” he added.
When contacted, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, simply said, “I will find out and get back to you as soon as possible.”
She was yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.
