Posted by The Port Harcourt Telegraph on
The premises of Wilbros Nigeria Limited was a beehive of activity Thursday.
Choba, 8th June, 2005. The premises of Wilbros Nigeria Limited was a beehive of activity Thursday.
Money had been brought in by the accounts people and workers who fall under the category of casual labour were warming up to receive their pay.
There was no reason to suspect any thing would be amiss. On the New Calabar River which runs behind the company, a boat was pulling in.
At first, nobody at the jetty made sense of what was going
The men in the boat alighted and soon onlookers to their horror had gun men in their midst.
Security men tried to react as the guns began to bark.
The operation to snatch the money was already underway.
Those who could run took flight while others sought shelter.
In no time, the gunmen had brought down five persons, most
of them believed to be security men as they proceeded to the point where the money meant for the payment of workers was kept.
Insiders tell the Telegraph that there were four Ghana-must-go-bags. The bags, it is believed, contained about four million naira.
The robbers grabbed the sacks and made their way back to the boat, pointing the nose of the boat in the direction of the rain forest from whence they came.