Two months after putting to bed, Mrs. Moshood was still receiving visitors and gifts from family members, neighbours and friends.
She however never bargained that
some of her visitors would be armed robbers.
Moshood said she was shocked to her
bone marrows when armed robbers barged into her room through the window and
uncaring that she had just put to bed, beat her black and blue because she did
not cooperate.
The woman who refused to disclose her
full name for security reasons, said she was beaten mercilessly after the
bandits invaded her home last week.
They tore off her clothes and
threatened to go away with her baby if she did not cooperate and cough up
money.
Moshood, scared out of her wit,
begged them not to take her baby away. The
mother of two said she watched petrified as they turned her home upside
down, frantically searching for money.
They eventually found N75,000 in the
wardrobe and an additional N12,000 in an envelope. The bandits also found the
sum of N25,000 in another section of the wardrobe, belonging to her sister.
This money made them to give up taking the baby away.
It will be recalled that last week,
a gang of robbers, attacked residents of Okekpa area of Mowe, Ogun State,
killing a man returning from a church night vigil. The robbers had written to
the community that they would be coming to attack. The robbers however did not
give the date or time they would be coming. The nursing mother was one of the
victims that the robbers pummeled.
Mrs. Moshood who spoke with our
correspondent, said she was just returning from hospital, where she went for
treatment due to the body pains and injury inflicted on her by the robbers.
Recalling how the unwanted visitors
paid her a visit, Moshood said: “It all started around 3am. I heard
footsteps around our house. They started throwing stones and banging on our
gate. Suddenly, five of the robbers jumped over the fence. They used their
pincers and Saw blades to cut through our burglaries.
“Before then, the robbers had been
shouting that they would kill me if I refused to open the door. I was searching
for the key which I did not find until they broke in through the window. I’ve
been under emotional torture since then. I’ve lost all my business money to the
robbers and have just left the hospital.”
Moshood said her husband went out
around 2:am, taking a pregnant woman who was in labour to hospital. Moshood
said that the pregnant woman was bleeding and there were fears that she could
die. Mr. Moshood decided to use his car to take her to Shagamu General Hospital
after a nearby hospital rejected her. One hour after he left, the robbers
arrived.
Moshood said she was with her two
kids and 11-year-old cousin when the gunmen entered.
She recalled: “Immediately they came
in, they tore off my cloths and started beating me. They hit me on the neck and
all over my body. They took my two-month-old baby and threatened
they would go with her if they could not find money in the house.
“Before they gained entry into the
house, I called my husband on phone. I told him that robbers were around. I
knew they would demand for my phone, so I hid it in the toilet. By the time
they came in, my phone was the first thing they asked for. There were four
phones plugged for charging, those were the ones I gave them.”
She disclosed: “They invaded our wardrobes
and stole N75,000, another N40,000 from one note book and N12,000. They also
went into my sister’s wardrobe and took her N25,000.”
Mrs. Moshood said the robbery lasted
about three hours and the robbers felt very comfortable during the attack
because there were no security operatives around to challenge them.
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