Armed Robbers Invade Murtala Mohammed International Airport In Lagos Carting Away N95 Million

A very great security lapse was so glaring around Nigerian airports Lagos yesterday and dare devil robbers took the opportunity and stormed the international wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Ikeja carting away with the sum of US $600,000 (N 95, 969, 998.17 million) from a Bureau de Change operator inside one of the car parks at the terminal.

A sources at the airport disclosed that the men of the underworld stormed the car park which is usually in darkness, and shot sporadically into the air while shooting a woman in the process before dispossessing their victim of the said amount around 8.30pm on Wednesday night.

The incident, according to the operator who simply identified himself as Salisu, took place without any challenge from the security agents stationed at various locations at the airport while the robbers carried out their operation and went away with the loot.

Salisu said the robbers who arrived with sophisticated machine guns traced a Dubai bound passenger that came to change some local currency into American dollars when the operator ran into the robbers and were dispossesed of the foreign currency.