Nigerian police officer dismissed for serial theft
Mr Yusuf has spent four months at the criminal investigation department serving a punishment for a prior stealing, the commissioner said.
Two weeks after he was released, he stole the TV set for which he was sacked, a junior police officer, who begged not to be named for fear of being punished, told PREMIUM TIMES Earlier, the complainer, Muktar Yunusa, a resident of Unguwar Sarki, in Dutse metropolis, told reporters on Friday that, the suspect burgled his house in the daytime using five different keys.
“When he came out with the stolen items which included TV set, a remote control and a pair of shoes, I asked him where he was going with those items, he pretended that he knows the occupant of the house without knowing the house belongs to me. “Subsequently, I called the attention of other neighbours, we apprehended him and took him to the police station,” Mr Yunusa said.
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