Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Anagaga axis of Abuja have announced the arrest of one Abubakar terrorising the residents of the area.
Making the announcement on Thursday, being 5th August, 2021, the head of the vigilante in the area ( name withheld ), said luck ran out of Abubakar on Thursday while he was trying to break the door of one the residents at about 9:45am and unknown to him, he was sighted by a woman who which quickly raised an alarm”.
Speaking further, the head of the vigilante described the teenager, Abubakar as a great runner as they had to run for almost an hour before they could capture him.
In an open confession, Abubakar admitted that he has been robbing the area with some other three culprits since 2019 and that their operations are mostly carried out on Thursday when Residents of the area must have gone to Mandala market of Niger State.
When OurWorldGist asked how they normally carry out their operations, Abubakar has this to say:
” I am Abubakar Ismaila , a Fulani boy by tribe from Katsina State: during the day, we disguise going about individually as Shoe Repairer, Baba Bolar and Passerby but in reality, we use that time to identify vulnerable areas we can rob when we consider it convince to do so”.
“We are many in Zuba area of Abuja but I and my gang concentrate in robbing Anagada area of Abuja, so others rob some other parts of Abuja too… Is like we are doing division of labour or concentrating in an area we best know”.
” We use Pliers, Axe, and Hammer to spoil doors and windows to gain access to Television, laptops, phones, money and valuable like jewelries”
” We have are customers who buy those items from us and that’s what of depend on for a living “.
As at the time of filing this report, Vigilante were busy putting their report together in order to hand over the culprit to Nigeria Police of Anagada area of Abuja for further interrogation and investigation.
Meanwhile, residents of Anagada area of Abuja have commended the vigilante group for their excellent work stressing that, is only God in heaven that can adequately reward them adding that it has become extremely difficult to sleep with two eyes closed as kidnapping, and stealing have become order of the day.