RRS Nabs Ex-Convict For Phone Theft

Lagos State Police Command has arrested an ex-convict, Tunde Ajeigbe for allegedly snatching a phone from a passenger in a commercial bus.

According to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), who shared the story on its social media handle, Ajeigbe, on the day of the incident, jumped from the motorcycle around the 7UP area and snatched an android phone from a passenger in a commercial bus and fled with his gang members.

However, the suspects abandoned their motorcycle and ran into the bush, but the RRS operatives arrested Ajeigbe, who had been in a correctional facility for pickpocketing and stealing since 2017 and was released in November 2019, while the other gang members escaped.

Confessing to the crime, Ajeigbe said “I was remanded in prison since 2017 and was released on November 19, 2019, but I could not go back to my wife and child. I went back to the house I rented before going to prison but I couldn’t find my properties and my family again, so I went back to the street.

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“I went back to under the bridge in Oshodi to join my friends, who gave me clothes to wear and bought food for me before we went back to our usual job. Although after spending some days in Mushin, some of my area brothers, who knew that I just came out of prison, helped me to secure a motorcycle on hire purchase, but that was not enough for me as I wanted to make quick money to be able to go and see my mother in the village after leaving home for three years without seeing her.

“My aged mother will be worried after I left home without returning and no one knew my whereabouts as my wife never informed my family that I had been arrested and remanded in prison. I, therefore, resorted to stealing again to raise some money; unfortunately, I was caught.”