Nigeria: Phone Snatching in Kano - a Need for Action

22 September 2021

Kano State has been enjoying relative peace in comparison to many other adjoining states in the North. Through combined proactive measures by all security stakeholders, coupled with Divine grace, kidnaping for ransom, banditry and arm robbery continue to remain at lowest ebb in the state.

However, phone snatching, unfortunately, is becoming intractable and deadly. Many innocent people have been deprived of their phones by street urchins while some lost their lives as the hoodlums use force to snatch the phones. Today, the fear of phone snatchers on the streets of Kano is the beginning of wisdom.

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