Cellphone Snatchers Escape Lynching As Irate Mob Burns Tricycle In Kano (Video)

A tricycle belonging to a infamous phone-snatching syndicate in Kofar Kabuga in Gwale Native Authorities Space of Kano State on Wednesday, Could 24 was set ablaze by an irate mob on Wednesday, Could 24.

Cellphone snatching has develop into rampant in Kano metropolis because the 2023 elections, with many individuals injured and others killed.

It was earlier reported that two younger males have been stabbed to loss of life by telephone snatchers within the state.

Witnesses who spoke to Every day Belief stated that members of the syndicate who snatched telephones, began their operation from across the Emir’s palace to the favored Nasarawa Hospital in Nasarawa LGA, and that after, youths mobilised to confront them and so they escaped to the Kofar Kabuga space the place they deserted the tricycle.

“They got here right here on their tricycle and began snatching peoples’ telephones. They usually do that every day. That was why folks determined to take motion in opposition to them. They attacked them of their giant numbers that was why they ran and their tricycle was set ablaze,” a witness stated.

 “Persons are bored with this menace. When they’re arrested they usually get launched. So, that was why folks began taking motion. I witnessed an identical incident on State Street, the place a tricycle was set ablaze. However earlier than they burnt it, they recovered over 30 cell phones inside. Essentially the most annoying a part of it’s that they may promote them at cheaper costs simply to purchase medication”.

A supply stated, “They both enter tricycles as passengers to grab telephones or use their tricycles to hold folks and alongside the best way snatch their telephones.”

Following the Wednesday incident, the state’s Commissioner of Police (CP), Muhammed Usaini Gumel, cautioned the general public in opposition to taking the regulation into their arms, calling on them to enrich police’ efforts to finish the menace and make sure the culprits have been arrested.

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