Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers numbering about five invaded the palace of the Emir of Minna, Alhaji Umar Farouk Bahago, on Tuesday and shot two of the palace guards (dogarai).
The incident reportedly happened around 4 p.m.
Daily Trust reports that the Emir was in the palace while gunmen shot sporadically to scare people away before they made off with an undisclosed amount of cash belonging to the Minna Emirate.
Two of the injured palace guards were reportedly taken to Minna General Hospital for medical attention.
Daily Trust gathered that one of the staff members of the palace, who was reportedly sent to the bank to get some cash, was trailed to the palace by the gunmen, who drove in a private car.
One of the eyewitnesses whose house neighbored and who didn’t want his name mentioned told Daily Trust the criminals overpowered the vigilantes in the palace who enraged them.
Calls put across to the Niger State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, went unanswered. He did not also respond to a message sent to his phone at the time of filing this report.
