•Police: Buy stolen phone, spend seven years in prison
“All through the night, I tried calling the line till late in the night but it was switched off. Early in the morning the following day, I ran to a welcome back centre to block the line. I did it and proceeded to report at a police station. On my way out of the police station, I tried calling my supposedly blocked line and to my surprise, it was ringing. A lady, who gave her name as Blessing, picked the call and said I should send her recharge card so that she could bring the phone to me.
Unlike Ekele, who said the thieves bought the recharge cards on his own mobile line, Babs said: “The thieves bought those cards for other mobile lines. I went to bank to collect details of the mobile lines they bought the cards to help security operatives in their investigation.” “I was returning from work late in the evening and was very close to my house when two young men riding on a motorcycle blocked me. They pointed a pistol at me and ordered me to give them all that I had on me. They collected some money, my expensive wristwatch that is worth about N200, 000 and two powerful phones – an Infinix and Samsung Galaxy 6Edge. The wristwatch was a gift. I was perplexed after the incident, to the extent that I ran past my house after they left.
The police are also alleged to be making life unbearable for victims. According to Ekele, “When I went to report the theft of my phone, the officers collected N1, 000 to record the incident. Thereafter, one of them said if I wanted them to investigate the theft, I should come for some ‘discussions’. I was told that it costs between N20, 000 and N30, 000 for SARS officials to track a stolen phone.
Dr. Austin Nweze of Lagos Business School noted that cases of phone theft and hacking into victims’ bank accounts is why many people don’t like doing online banking. “But do we stop going to war because people die when they go to war? Nations must fight wars and the same applies to individuals. We cannot because of these criminal elements refuse to embrace new technologies. This has been an issue all over the world and they have not been able to find a final solution.
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