A 20-year old lady, Suliya Tajudeen has said she planned to return the iPhones she stole at Osun Mall before her arrest by the police.
Tajudeen, who was paraded alongside 86 others by the police in connection with looting of public and private property in some parts of Osun State during the #EndSARS protest, said she did not use the phones before the police tracked her down.
“I was not involved. I went to the mall to meet my hairstylist, who had called me earlier to come over so that I could tint my hair to black. But a few minutes after I got there, I saw many people running towards the mall. I also heard sounds like gunshots. But I wasn’t sure if they were gunshots or something else. We were all scared and so we ran in different directions in the mall.
“I could not go out because I believed those that came into the premises might injure me, so I hid. When the hoodlums were looting shops, the rest of us hid in different places. The hoodlums were moving from shop to shop, stealing items. They got to a phone shop and looted it. While they were carting away many phones, two iPhones fell near where I was and I picked them up.
On why she picked the phone, Tajudeen said: “My intention was to return the phone the following day. I had planned to visit my stylist the following day.
The suspect said she didn’t use the iPhones personally, adding that she didn’t join the protest as well.
” I don’t even know how to use iPhones. But I put SIM cards in the phones. My friends wanted to download Snapchat and take pictures with the phones, so they put SIM cards in them. The phones were new but not packaged,”
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