Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi,
the Borno Commandant, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), says
the command has arrested 24-year-old Isah Ma’azu, alleged to have stolen 15
cell phones from housewives. Abdullahi said that Mu’azu, a tricycle operator,
was back in custody for the same offence barely two hours after his release on
bail.
Abdullahi who spoke in
an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Saturday in Maiduguri,
said that the suspect was saved from being lynched. He alleged that the
tricycle operator stole a cell phone from a woman at Bulumkutu area of
Maiduguri.
He said that the suspect who was released on bail, based on health
grounds, had stolen 15 cell phones and other valuable items from married women
in the metropolis. “The habitual culprit usually disguise as an errand boy, go
to matrimonial homes under the pretext of delivering shopping or food items
from their husbands. “After delivering the items, the suspect would ask the
women to give him their cell phones so that he would call their husbands.
Eventually, the suspect would run away with the cell phones,” he said.
The commandant
explained that luck ran out of the suspect when he applied the same trick on a
woman who refused to fall for his antics and shouted for help.
Abdullahi said that the suspect would be charged to court, and
advised residents to be wary of unknown person who may disguise as errand boys.
(NAN)
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