Amata was returning from Victoria Island (VI) on the fateful day when the robbers swooped on him.
A source close to the president of the Directors Guild of Nigeria (DGN) said the gunmen robbed him of was robbed of his Toyota Lexus 470 Sport Utility Vehicle. “Not only that, the robbers stripped Amata. He was stark naked,” the source added. Meanwhile, police in Lagos said they had recovered Amata SUV, which was snatched two weeks ago.
The vehicle, which was stolen on June 25, was recovered on Monday at Ejigbo area of Lagos. But the source close to the actor said the robber accosted Amata at Aguda in Surulere and asked for his Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card. He said: “When they couldn’t get his ATM card from him or money, they ordered him to remove his shoes, shirt, trousers and boxers.
They abandoned him on the Fadeyi Bridge, stark naked. He could not move because he did not know the next thing to do since he was naked. Luckily for him, he saw a police patrol van and flagged it down.
The policemen gave him a T-shirt to wear to cover his nakedness. The policemen took him to Area C’ Police Command, where he wrote a statement. They later took Amata to his house in Surulere.”
It was learnt that after leaving VI, Amata drove to a friend’s home, at Aguda, Surulere. He was outside the gate of his friend, waiting for him to come and open the gate, when four armed men, on two motorcycles, surrounded his car. The incident occurred about 2:30a.m.
They ordered the film producer to the back seat of his vehicle and took over the wheels. They also abandoned their motorcycles. When they couldn’t get money from him, they stripped him and drove towards Fadeyi B r i d g e , where they abandoned him.
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Dolapo Badmos, urged the actor to come and pick his recovered vehicle. She said: “The eagleeyed policemen who spotted the vehicle with some male occupants gave it a hot chase. The men, realising they were being trailed by the police, abandoned the vehicle and fled.”
Badmos said the command was still on the trail of the suspects who snatched the car from Amata, while the recovered vehicle would soon be handed over to the owner. Amata’s friend and colleague, Matthias Obahiagbon, narrated the sad incident on Facebook.
“He was on his way back from a business dinner, on behalf of his guild, very tired and looking forward to the warmth of his bed.
As he waited almost endlessly for the street gate to be opened by the security guards, lo and behold some four fierce looking gun-toting men appeared from the dark night, no thanks to PHCN, and off they went with him as captive in his own car,” Obahiagbon wrote.https://newtelegraphonline.com/robbers-stripped-fred-amata-source/
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