Detectives at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command are puzzling over how three Automated Teller Machines, ATM at a branch of Keystone Bank in Asokoro, a highbrow District of Abuja, were attacked and damaged by a yet-to-be identified person unnoticed.
The act was allegedly perpetrated even as two armed personnel of No. 44 Squadron of the Police Mobile Force, PMF based at the Force Headquarters in Abuja and two corporate security guards were said to be on duty at the bank.
Scudnews could not ascertain the exact time the ATMs were attacked and damaged, but it was learnt that a staff of Keystone bank identified as Mr. Achor Ojima, reported the incident to the police at Asokoro Divisional Headquarters at about 10.55am on October 18, when it was suspected to have occurred.
Ojima, a Retail Relationship Officer, RRO with the Asokoro branch of the bank, had reportedly lodged a complaint at the police station that he discovered the incident when he resumed for work at about 7.am on Tuesday, October 18.
Curiously, the attack on the ATMs was said to have been perpetrated by an unknown person as no alarm was raised by the mobile policemen and corporate security operatives on guard at the bank neither was any suspect arrested.
However, the police said a review of the Closed Circuit Television, CCTV footage at the bank in the course of preliminary investigations on the incident, showed a woman dressed like a mentally ill person hitting and damaging the automated machines.
Security sources hinted Scudnews that the motive for the act had yet to be established, but the police said investigation is ongoing.
A senior official at the Asokoro branch of the bank who refused to disclose his identity, declined comments on the incident when a Scudnews reporter visited the scene of crime on Thursday, October 21, to ascertain whether money was carted away or not from the damaged ATMs.
