Armed men in a police uniform wearing bullet proof vests were said to have recently snatched a black colour Toyota Prado Jeep, belonging to one of the federal ministries in Abuja.
Police source said that on that fateful day, robbers in police uniforms were seen stopping motorists and robbing them of their belongings at Area 2, Garki, Abuja.
The source said most of the armed men had their bullet proof vest on and nobody could have thought they were armed robbers until they started robbing their victims.
A victim said she sighted a lot of traffic congestion on that axis but did not realise what was going on until a gun was pointed on her head.
"I was on traffic, I didn't know that robbers were operating the next thing I saw was a gun pointed at my head by the uniformed men. I told them that my car was not stolen and that I've my particulars. The man told me to bring out everything I had including my phones and jewelries. They snatched my handbag and took N70,000 from me," she said.
The victim, who gave her name as Amaka, said her experience was so traumatizing and that after they finished with her they continued with the other people.
Another source from Garki police division said that the police received information from control room of the FCT command that a Toyota Prado Jeep, belonging to one of the federal ministries was snatched by two armed men in police uniform.
The source said as a result, a team of policemen rushed to the scene at Area 2, Garki, and that "alerts" were sent out to all the policemen on exit points about the snatched vehicle for possible recovery.
"The driver of the jeep was said to have been shot at the pelvis and was rushed to a hospital at Garki for treatment. The vehicle has meanwhile, been recovered along Kaduna road by the FCT Special Anti-Robbery Squad," the source said.
The source added that a live ammunition and one empty shell of AK47 ammunition were recovered at the scene and that effort is being intensified to arrest the fleeing suspects.
Speaking with journalists recently in his office on the indiscriminate use of police uniforms in FCT by suspected hoodlums, the FCT Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph Mbu, said the command has been recording such unfortunate incidents.
He said police officers have been banned from wearing bullet proof jackets on mufti.
"Any police officer wearing bullet proof jacket on mufti is likely to be an armed robber and any police officer seen in such condition must be treated like an armed robber," he said.
