Residents of Makurdi, Benue State capital, and its environs have raised alarm over the sudden surge in the activities of motorbike robbers in the city.
Some of the victims of the notorious gangs who spoke to Vanguard yesterday in Makurdi, lamented that residents now lived in fear of the bandits who carried out their nefarious activities at night.’’
They further decried the inability of the Police to stem the tide by their failure to strictly implementing the restriction on motorbike use in the state.
One of the victims, Patrick Ukeyima, who narrated his ordeal to reporters, said: “The trend in Makurdi is that you could be alighting from your car or walking on the street and you suddenly see two or three young men on a motorbike approach you with a locally-made pistol and ask you to empty your pockets.”
