The suspected thief. Photo: Olatunji Obasa
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A suspected thief, Adewunmi Abdullahi, who tried to dispossess a photojournalist of The PUNCH of his belongings on Friday in Lagos, met his waterloo when he was ‘arrested’ by his victim and dragged to a police station.
The photojournalist, Olatunji Obasa,
said the suspected crook, connived with another young man to rob him on
the pedestrian bridge at Oshodi around 8.30am.
Obasa said he wanted to take photographs
of an accident scene when he noticed two men attempting to snatch his
belongings from him.
He said, “I looked down from the bridge
and saw an accident scene. But as I tried to take a shot, I felt a hand
in my pocket. As I tried to check what was happening, I noticed that
another hand was unlatching my bag.
“Immediately, I gripped the hand in my
pocket and shouted ‘thief, thief.’ The other man trying to unlatch my
bag quickly fled. But I held on to the other one and hit him. As I did
that, passers-by had gathered and helped to hold him.”
Obasa said he dragged the young man,
whose age he put at around 20, down the bridge where a policeman, who
had noticed the fray, asked what happened.
He said, “I told him the young man tried
to rob me. Everybody around there said there were lots of robbers
operating in groups like that in the area. We then took the young man to
the Mosafejo Police Division, Oshodi.
“I made a statement there. I think the police would take appropriate action on the issue.”
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