NTA staff over-powered robbers in Benin

                                                   
A female journalist with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Benin, Edo State, has once again shown that some women are not to be toyed with as she single handedly disarmed a suspected armed man who wanted to rob her, collecting his locally made pistol from him.

The suspect who name was given as Stanley, met his match in the newscaster when he attempted to snatch her car as she reportedly gave him the fight of his life before other residents responded to her shouts of assistance and he was over-powered and handed over to the police at the Oba Police Station.

“I was cleaning the car around 5am in readiness to travel to Lagos to attend a wedding when I heard someone ordering me not to make a noise. He had been hiding behind my car all this while.

He had a gun with him. He said I should take him inside the house and give him money. I begged him not to shoot, that I will give him the money.

I also appealed to him that my sister, whom I lodged with, is heavily pregnant. I told him that my sister may go into force labour at the sight of the gun. He was not interested in my pleas. He held the gun to my waist. As we got close to the entrance of the sitting room, I summoned courage.

I screamed Jesus! I did not know what came over me, but I suddenly turned and grabbed the gun.

I struggled with him and turned the gun to his chest. He bit me. I bit him back. As we struggled, we reached where my car was parked. I screamed and started calling for help. My brother in-law ran out. He attacked the robber and kicked him until he fell flat on his face.”

The suspect, while confessing at the police station, said:

“It was my gang members that gave me the gun. I targeted the house because I thought I could rob people living there successfully.

I entered the compound by jumping the fence. I never expected that the lady would react by grabbing my gun. I planned the operation in my house. I entered the compound around 2am.”