{"id":275717,"date":"2011-02-08T10:40:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T10:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=51472"},"modified":"2011-02-08T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T10:40:47","slug":"armed-robbers-attack-popular-nigerian-actress-funke-akindele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/08\/armed-robbers-attack-popular-nigerian-actress-funke-akindele\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Robbers Attack Popular Nigerian Actress Funke Akindele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_47157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47157\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-47157\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/13\/funke-akindele\/funke-akindele\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47157\" title=\"Funke Akindele\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Funke-Akindele.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Funke Akindele<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nActress Funke Akindele was in the early hours of Monday, February 7 2011 robbed by a gang of armed robbers who invaded an Ebute Metta located hotel where she was lodged.<br \/>\nAccording to sources Ms Akindele was lodged at the Imperial Hotel with some members of her family owing to the ongoing filming of her newly-abuzz movie \u2018Omo Ghetto\u2019 part 2 \u2013 the location which was not far from the Lagos street hotel.<br \/>\nNET investigations revealed that the robbers who shot into the air several times first raided a 2-storey building next to Imperial before retiring at the hotel as they gained entrance after successfully cutting off the electric barb-wires that surrounded the building.<br \/>\n\u2018As they came in, they started asking of Funke Akindele but our staff repeatedly told them she wasn\u2019t in the hotel. They then broke into the rooms and robbed other customers of their phones, money (both naira and dollars) before they eventually found Funke\u2019, one of the hotel\u2019s authority who pleaded anonymity tells NET.<br \/>\nThe Glo ambassador who had just concluded shooting \u2018The Return of Jenifa\u2019 lost her phones and a substantial amount of money to the hoodlums.<br \/>\n\u2018The total sum of money the robbers left the hotel with was over N2 million. They even took other customer\u2019s international passports\u2019, our source added.<br \/>\nAmid the pandemonium and fear the robbers created in the neighbourhood with their lavish gunshots, the hotel management allegedly called the Police but upon arrival they disappeared as they were unable to salvage the situation; we learnt.<br \/>\n\u2018This is not the first time nor the second that these robbers would be terrorising this neighbourhood in the past weeks. They still robbed Ogogo, a fellow Yoruba movie actor\u2019s house down this street few weeks ago but luckily the actor was admitted at the hospital at the time. We reported to the police to beef up security in the area but they never made any effort to do so. How will the Police respond when they are not clean themselves\u2019; the insider furiously lamented.<br \/>\nHowever, upon departing, the robbers smashed Funke\u2019s Nissan X-Trail jeep, her mother\u2019s Honda CR-V, and her marketer\u2019s Range Rover which were all parked in the hotel premises.<br \/>\nRepeated efforts to reach the Lagos state Police public relations officer, Samuel Jinadu on the phone proved abortive as his line was unreachable.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Jenifa star and the other people with her at the hotel have since the incident being hibernating at an undisclosed apartment.<br \/>\nSource: Thenetng<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Funke Akindele was in the early hours of Monday, February 7 2011 robbed by a gang of armed robbers who invaded an Ebute Metta located hotel where she was lodged. 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