A young lady describes an encounter with a phone thief in Ibadan’s Iwo Road area who pickpocketed her device and attempted to flee.
@OsamudiamenOO, a Twitter user, took to the platform to recount how she went to a wedding event and nearly lost her phone to a thief.
According to the user, she was leaving the party when she was approached from behind by a young man who casually stole her phone.
“Tell me why I went for a wedding in Ibadan today and ended up doing 100m sprint on Iwo road because this guy pickpocketed my phone and tried to run away in a cab.
We were all walking from the church to the reception venue on a narrow road when I perceived terrible body odor.
I smelt him before I saw him, I had to look back to see who the smelly person was. Then I made way for him to move forward, but he motioned to me to walk ahead, acting all gentlemanly.
When we got to the main road, I noticed that my phone was no longer in my bag. I instantly knew it was him, I looked around and I saw him already walking far ahead in the opposite direction of the venue.
I told my colleagues that my phone was gone and I started to jog towards him, I didn’t call out to him cos I didn’t want him to notice me and start to run.
Next thing I saw him enter a cab and the cab started moving. That was when I started running and shouting “stop the cab! Ole ole!”
People didn’t hear me at first, Then someone saw me running and shouting and quickly stopped the cab. I got to the cab and asked him for my phone, the idiot said “it fell on the floor and he picked it” he even had the audacity to ask if it was my phone.
The people around dragged him from the cab and started slapping him. I shouted at him and cursed him but I didn’t want anyone to beat. I left him shortly after and walked back to where my colleagues were, it was while I was walking back that I realized that one of my colleagues had followed me while I was running towards the thief.
I must have been a sight to behold: Me running in a black jumpsuit, face full of makeup, looking all fine and running like a mad women screaming “stop the cab! Ole ole!”
I think the bravery came from thought of all my bank info on the phone.
I ran for all my previous phones that had been pickpocketed, it was a vengeance-fueled race. 😭”
Watch the video below …
“I saw it on the ground” — Phone thief apprehended in Ibadan while attempting to flee (Video)
See reactions:
@oyedele__: Oh wow. Sorry you went through this.
@GuessTheMaga: Well damn, take it easy. Were you able to retrieve it ?
@le_capone: But he was just playing with you nau 😂😂😂. Which kain play be that, from where to where 😂
@OluwafemiSossa: Wow! Sorry about this
@Temitayo_GQ: Ahhh! Thank God you caught him.
@Himar001: Choi, people sef, thank God you are able to get your phone
@bankrollsuraj: Love your energy lol and thank God you retrieved it back
By Ejoh Esther
