gang of armed robbers on Saturday invaded a wedding reception in the
Abule-Egba area of Lagos State.
incident happened at about 6.45pm when some of the
invited guests to the wedding had started leaving. “They used a bus to block
the only entrance to the popular event centre located on Olaniyi Street in
Abule-Egba before they started dispossessing people of their belongings,” said
a witness.
The criminals
robbed the bride and groom of their wedding rings and gift items they had received from guests. They also allegedly shot and injured a female
guest. (Oh no)
lasted for 15 minutes and policemen got to the crime scene 15 minutes
after the robbers had left, only to arrest everyone on sight.
including the staff of the event centre. They said we did not come to the
station to tell them that we have such centre in the area and that, there was
going to be activities there on that day.”
