ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that there was a report of armed robbery incident at exactly 2am on Saturday at a private hostel located in Cooperative Estate, Adaba, Apete Ibadan.
The private hostel housing many Polytechnic Ibadan students including both males and females was said to have been raided by two-man robbery gang who raided room to room and carted away several valuable items including phones, laptops and money.
According to our correspondent, the armed robbers gained entrance to the hostel through the backyard fence, broke several doors and made their way to several rooms. The robbers according to eyewitness who spoke under condition of anonymity to ODUDUWA NEWS said, one of the robbers was sighted with a gun which he used to overpower male students living in the hostel.
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The robbery incident was said to have lasted for 2 hours before the robbers later scaled fence and ran away having suspected move by some residents to descend on them.
It was learnt that a female resident was raped by the armed robbers.
Meanwhile, some of the students had lamented poor management of the hostel by the owner who had turned deaf ear to their request to attach importance to their security by erecting iron doors in the hostel.
The wife of the hostel owner who manages its affairs on behalf of her UK-resident husband, said to have alerted Nigerian Police for further investigation.