Serving Corps Member Caught Stealing Phone (Photo)

A serving corps member identified as Mohammed Aminu Tukur caused a mild drama last week at a new generation bank, located along Ezza road, Abakaliki Ebonyi State after he was caught with a bank cashier's phone he stole inside the banking hall.

Mohammed Aminu Tukur 

 

Drama started after a mobile phone, Techno M6, belonging to one of the cashiers in the banking hall, suddenly disappeared moments after he finished attending to a customer. Immediately the cashier realised his phone had disappeared, he raised the alarm.

 

According to NewTelegraph, there were repeated calls that anyone who took the phone should bring it out, but all maintained their innocence. This stoic innocence of all staff and customers, forced the bank’s security guards to embark on a search of everyone in the banking hall. There were gasps of shock and outrage when the phone was recovered from a serving corps member, Mohammed Aminu Tukur. The suspect was said to have vehemently refused to be searched.

 

That gave him away and the security men forcefully searched him only to recover the phone. Tukur, from Kastina State and a ‘Batch B’ corps member, serving in the state, had gone to the bank for transaction when he stole the cashier’s phone. Eye witnesses said that when Tukur got to the bank, he tried to hurry the cashier, insisting he was in a hurry.

 

The banker immediately started facilitating Tukur’s transaction, especially since he was a corps member. Unknown to him, Tukur was strategizing on how to steal the cashier's Techno M6 on his table. When the cashier excused himself to speak with a colleague sitting not too far from him. Before he returned, Tukur had already collected the phone, removed the battery and hid it inside his pocket.

 

The sudden disappearance of the phone made the cashier worried. He raised the alarm, attracting the attention of most customers, staff and branch manager.

 

An eye witness said: “The bank’s branch manager appealed to all customers in the banking hall to bring out phones which didn’t belong to them. But everyone denied having possession of the phone.

"This prompted the Customer Care Unit of the bank to order for a ‘Stop and Search’ of the customers at the bank’s entrance. 

 

“Every customer was subjected to a search, but Tukur refused to be searched. He angrily told the security guards conducting the search not to search him.

"He said it was against his Muslim faith. All efforts made to search him, proved abortive as he resisted. The manager alerted policemen from the nearest police station. 

 

“When the policemen landed, they approached Tukur for search. He still maintained his earlier stand. The policemen overpowered him.

"They searched him and discovered the cell phone inside his pocket.” 

 

One of the policemen, a Muslim, was angry and disgusted, with Tukur. He said Tukur was a disgrace to Islam. The policemen whisked Tukur away for further investigation. Tukur said he was pushed to steal the phone by the devil.

 

His words: “It’s the devil that lured me into this type of mess. I wouldn’t have ordinarily stolen a cell phone. I’m finished! Look at what I have caused myself. I am a corps member. I don’t know what will be my fate after what I had done.

"I have caused myself public embarrassment.” Tukur pleaded for forgiveness, promising never to indulge in such act again.

 

He said: “I won’t try this type of thing again. It has caused me lots of damages. I’m begging for forgiveness. The police and bank officials should forgive me.”