Female POS Operator Disarms Two Suspected Robbers

A female Point of Sale(POS) operator, who was identified as Ann, reportedly disarmed two robbery suspects in Uhogua community, Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. Ann operates a POS shop at the junction that leads to a facility that houses the home for the needy christened, International Christian Centre, which houses no fewer than 3,000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs. The robbery suspects, who were said to be armed with a locally made pistol, had stormed the shop and initially pretended to be genuine customers but the POS operator immediately sensed the danger that they had come to rob her. It was gathered that the suspects brought out an Automated Teller Machine card, ATM, and requested to withdraw N200,000 and the other suspect brought out a locally made gun and ordered her to surrender all the money she had to them. But the operator was said to have snatched the gun from the suspect and consequently raised the alarm, which attracted some security operatives around her.

The two suspects identified as Andrew Adubu and Destiny Olu were handed over to the police, they confessed that they were trying to raise money to take care of family needs during the ongoing Yuletide. The state Police Public Relations Officer PPRO confirmed the incident, adding that policemen have been placed in strategic positions across the state to deal with criminal elements.