Like a Hollywood movie, armed robbers last weekend waylaid a Toyota Hilux pick-up vehicle on the busy Ishaya Bakut road.
Within seconds, they killed two policemen and carted away over N17 million.
The cash, it was gathered, was for payment of National Youth Service Corps members whose passing out ceremony was to take place on the following day.
The slain policemen attached to the Benue State Civil Service Secretariat were Timothy Anyangaor and Faned Mtaghenyi.
A motorcycle mechanic, Akuha Gbande, who witnessed the robbery close to his workshop, said two young men alighted from a Toyota Corolla close to the junction between Makurdi to Otukpo Road and Ishaya Bakut Road.
They shot sporadically with their automatic rifles at the oncoming pick-up vehicle heading towards B Division police station on Ishaya Bakut Road in Makurdi, he added.
He recalled the bullets deflated the tyre of the Hilux and bought it to a halt.
Two police escorts who returned fire, the witness said, were killed while the vehicle was riddled with bullets.
Gbande stated the robbers removed the big Ghana-must-go bag containing the money believed to have been withdrawn from an old generation bank.
Investigations revealed the incident was the second involving staff of the Ministry of Finance.
Robbers snatched over N20million from a cashier and driver of the ministry some weeks ago.
The police were said to have wondered such amount were withdrawn without security escorts.
The driver and cashier were arrested and charged to court.
The Police Public Relations Officer(PPRO), Daniel Ezeala, confirmed the incident to our correspondent.
He said the vehicle used by the robbers had been found with a government plate number.
Ezeala disclosed that investigation has commenced into the incident, assuring that the suspects would soon be fished out. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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