The victim whose name was yet-to-be known at the time of filing the report was said to be a major distributor of vegetable oil in the commercial city.
Investigation has it the victim was yet to make formal complaint to the police over the robbery incident.
According to sources, the gunmen numbering four came in a commercial tricycle in disguise as customers that want to buy a product.
It was learnt that the hoodlums who were directed to where they would make payment, on getting to the point of payment, surrounded the cashier and demanded hand over of the money in its possession.
The hoodlums were said to have carted away with over N2million which were said to be amount made from the day’s sales.
“The man, we learnt is a businessman and one of the major vegetable oil distributors around Kent.
“The hoodlums came in a Keke and pretended to be customers. When they were directed to go inside to pay for the number of goods that they want before it will be supplied to them, they took the advantage to rob the cashier.
“We learnt that they collected over N2million naira. The bank that the man banks with usually comes at the end of the day to come and take the cash to their bank.
“But the guys played smart and made away with the cash that they have made for the day.
“People got to know what happened when they must have zoomed away from the area.
“That has been the way these hoodlums have been going about robbing people in their various warehouses,” a source that pleaded anonymity stated.