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AU summit delegate robbed in Johannesburg, South Africa

by Staff reporter
11 Jun 2015 at 09:10hrs | Views
Johannesburg - A Nigerian delegate at the 25th African Union summit was robbed by men posing as Nigerian police officers in Johannesburg, Gauteng police said on Thursday.

According to News24, Gabriel Gundo, 55, was stopped on Marlboro Drive while coming from OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday night, Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said.

The robbers, driving a Hyundai, produced a Nigerian police identification and took $500 and R700 from him.

On May 22, several delegates attending the Pan African Parliament were robbed at gunpoint in their shuttle bus at the entrance to the Protea Hotel Midrand.  

Source - news24