Money, documents missing

By Nwabueze Okonkwo

ONITSHA—Three night guards attached to the Customary Court, Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, are now facing internal query over last Sunday night’s attack on the court offices.

The offices were ransacked, with the invaders, suspected to be armed robbers, making away with an undisclosed amount of money and valuable documents.

The incident was the second. The first occurred the previous Thursday night, but the robbers did not succeed, which must have prompted their second visit, Sunday night.

The reason for the query to the night guards, according to security sources, is because of their inability to confront the robbers or, at least, give a graphic account of how the robbers operated on the night, more so when the robbers had struck three days earlier.

At press time yesterday, it was not yet certain what would be the fate of the guards, following the query issued them on Monday morning, when the officials came to work and discovered that all the offices had been ransacked and that unspecified sums of money and valuable documents removed from their offices.

Reliable sources from security agencies hinted that the robbers had a field day during the operation, as none of the night guards was around to challenge them, to the extent that butts from cigarettes smoked by the robbers littered the court halls on Monday morning.

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Uche Ezeh, told newsmen on phone that he was not yet aware of the incident, adding that the court apparently wanted the court officials to handle the matter internally first, before reporting it to the police for further investigations.