Armed robbers have invaded a private hostel occupied by female students of Kwara State Polytechnic, molesting them before striping them of their properties and valuables valued at over 2 million naira.
The incident, which occurred Tuesday night around 11 pm, according to eyewitness reports, saw the robbers strip the female students naked and locked them up in a room occupied by the only male member of the hostel, after they had removed the properties belonging to the ladies.
This had made the ladies and other occupants to desert the hostel, located along Bukola Bukoye Street in Oyun area of the state capital. The hostel has about eight self-contained apartments and was mainly occupied by ladies apparently with means.
The robbers were said to have scaled the fancy low fence built around the house and subsequently tampered with the choke of the two small generating sets that were being used to supply light to two of the apartments, in order to increase the volume of noise from the sets and thereby prevent neighbours from hearing what was going on in the hostel.