Two notorious phone thieves in Katsina State have met their waterloo.
The notorious robbers were nabbed by a renowned independent crime tracker, Isyaku Abdullahi Kontagora.
He nabbed them at the Liyafa area in Katsina metropolis and swiftly handed them over to the police that ensured they were arraigned in court immediately.
The thieves, who are in their 20s, had been terrorising residents of Liyafa in recent times.
Kontagora, who won Security and Emergency Management Awards in 2020 for facilitating the arrests of suspected armed robbers, kidnappers and assassins in Kaduna, Niger and the nation’s capital, Abuja, told PRNigeria that he nabbed the two hoodlums at about 12am on Wednesday.
He said luck ran out of the thieves after they had violently assaulted a man around Liyafa roundabout, “forcefully” collecting their victim’s phone and money.
He said: “I arrested them immediately after they had finished robbing a resident.
“And I thereafter handed them over to some police officers, who were at a nearby checkpoint.
“I also ensured they were arraigned in court within 24 hours.”
It was learnt that a sword, some cash and a phone were recovered from the two suspects, who a Katsina court has ordered to be remanded in police custody.
PRNigeria’s investigation revealed that the arrested “petty robbers”, carry out their terror operations with machetes, mainly at the night.
They have attacked many people walking on foot at night in the area, disposing of their money, phones and other valuable items.
PRNigeria.
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