OVER 25 MILLION PHONES STOLEN IN ONE YEAR- FG. (PHOTO).
Over 25 million phones stolen in one year – FG The Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey report of the National Bureau of Statistics, a Federal Government agency, shows that Nigeria recorded 25.35 million phone theft cases between May 2023 and April 2024. According to the report, this was the most common type of crime within the period under review. The report read, “The number of crimes experienced by individuals in Nigeria was analysed over a period of time. The results show that theft of phones (25,354,417) was the most common crime experienced by individuals, followed by consumer fraud (12,107,210) and assault (8,453,258). However, hijacking of cars (333,349) was the least crime experienced by individuals within the reference period.” It also noted that most phone theft cases occurred either at home or in a public place, and about 90 per cent of such cases were reported to the police. Despite the high rate of the incident being reported, only about 11.7 per cent of t...
According to one of my reporters Chinenye Genevieve who sent in this photo with the caption ''Two most wanted female arm robbers alleged to specialize in entering people's shops,boutique,supermarkets,restaurant on the pretence to buy goods,food stuff or change cloths in broad day light but later end up robbing has been arrested by men of the Nigerian Police Force,Barracks Road Division,Akwa Ibom State.The notorious thieves who have been terrorizing pedestrians and residents of Uy,the Akwa Ibom Capital,using keke to operate was llast thursday apprehended with the help of people who ran after their keke after they had stolen from a boutique at No. 15 Ekpo Obot Street.Narrating her ordeal from the hand of the heartless woman,the Boutique sales girl,Imaobong Isaiah said: ''See me o-o-o! The two girls enter my shop on a pretence to buy from me but after picking all the costly female hand bags,shoes,men,gens,hand watches and clths worth forty-five thousand naira; instead of them to pay for what they have bought,they sent me to go and buy them drinks.So,I went to buy drinks for them at the nearby shop.As I returned,I met them making calls,and immediately their operational Keke man who was on a standby to pick them came and they went inside the Keke with all my cloths without paying.So,I tell them to give me my cloths,they refused.So,I started shouting,help! Thief! Thief! But the Keke man had already moved.As God would like it,luck ran out on them,the people around and people using car pursued them and caught them''.Questioning the two suspects,Grace Ekpo and Mfon Daniel from Itiam Iot Ebia,Uyo Local Government,they confessed to the crime; saying apart from their present robbery,they have been involving in all kinds of robbery in the State and begged the people not to kill them.''When we entered people shop,anything you sale we will pack the most costly ones; after which we will ask you to get us water or send you on an errand,that will make us run away with the goods without paying for it.We rob women in keke,we pick rechard card bags and anything that would fetch us quick money''.When men of the Police Force arrived the place,they took them away to the station along Barracks Road,Uyo.Confirming the arrest,the Police said the suspects are in their custody.
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