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By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna
As the country’s deteriorated economic situation further worsened, robbery and shops burgling crimes undertaken by mainly teenage boys have become rampant in some communities within Kaduna town.
Areas mostly and widely reported in recent times includes Sabon Tasha, Gonin Gora, U/Boro and some part of Tudun Wada, Kawo and U/Rimi respectively amongst others.
The menace has become a recurring decimal with seven teens including a 7years old boy recent arrested
In Gonin Gora, the menace has become a recurring decimal with seven teens including a 7years old boy recent arrested and handover to the police over alleged burgling of food restaurant shops, according to a local source, Peter Endurance.
Finding revealed that the particular boy’s gangs had been arrested on several occasions, detained in juvenile cells, but could not help matter as the boy continue to appear in several other crimes scene situation involving shops burgling.
The case of the teenage burglar culprit has gone viral in the area that a mother had reportedly cried to police and begged them to take him to prison custody, but police refused, on ground that he’s an underaged.
These group of boys burgled shops mostly restaurant, provision shops, amongst others and carted away with food items
According to eyewitness account, these group of boys burgled shops mostly restaurant, provision shops, amongst others and carted away with food items and other items such as cooking utensils, and sold them.
“They don’t break through the doors but through the back wall in most cases because small holes are enough for the small sized boy burglars to penetrate and do the needful”, the source said.
In some instance, the boys were thoroughly cut and beaten to the point of coma by neighborhood but that could not deterred them from perpetrating the crimes apparently owning to the severity of hunger and starvation.
They don’t break through the doors but through the back wall in most cases because small holes are enough for the small sized boy burglars to penetrate and do the needful
While the incidents were being perpetrated, a case of a motorcyclist who was slaughtered, and body dumped by the side of Abuja -junction overhead bridge rented air as his motorbike and phone were reportedly taken away by the killers.
In another horrible incident, a bike nan who took passengers from Gonin Gora to U/Boro around Sabon Tasha was reportedly thoroughly beaten on arrival but able to over powered the attackers.
Even though he managed over to over powered the attackers and rescued himself and his bike, in an attempt to collect the bike from him, the victim was however left with near fractured body, severed and permanent injury battling for treatment.
Also contacted for more clarification, the spokesman of Kaduna state police command, Asp Mansir Hassan could not respond until the time of filing this report.
