Armed criminals on Thursday, attacked the Nasarawa State Ministry of Finance, Budget and Planning in Lafia and carted away with N100 million.
Eyewitnesses said the armed gunmen trailed officials of the ministry from a commercial bank in Lafia, where they had withdrawn the money to their office before the attack.
The money was meant to pay the wages of casual workers in the ministry.
One of the eyewitnesses spoke on condition of anonymity, “But it was in the ministry’s premises that the well-armed gunmen snatched the N100 million from the finance ministry’s officials while trying to dislodge the cash from the vehicle that was conveying it to the cash room.
“In the process of snatching the said amount of money, the gunmen shot sporadically in the air that the ministry’s officials carrying the money and other staff members of the ministry within the premises went down low, paving the way for the gunmen to snatch the N100 million effortlessly.”
The state’s Commissioner for Finance, Budget and Planning, Mr. Haruna Ogbole, confirmed the robbery incident and said investigation was ongoing.
