The Nigerian Police Force have warned Nigerians against buying used phones popularly tagged as 'London used'
Some Nigerians prefer 'London used' phones because it is relatively cheaper than new ones.
Rapid Response squad (RRS), however, urged Nigerians not to buy such phones without knowing its source
Nigerians have been warned against buying used phones which are popularly known as 'London used' without knowing sources of such phones.
The Rapid Response squad (RRS) gave this warning on Friday, September 29 on their Facebook page. To drive home their point, the RRS shared a story of 30-year-old Jamiu Adebayo who was arrested after buying a supposed 'London used' phone that was in actual sense stolen from a banker.
The police in their statement said: "Please, whenever you want to buy a fairly used phone, try to know the source. Avoid using your money to buy trouble for yourself. Some of these so-called ‘London Used Phones’ might actually be stolen phones. If the buying of "London used phones" is completely tamed, there would be low demand for stolen phones and robbers would cease to be interested in other peoples’ phones".
Going further, the Rapid Response Squad shared the story of Adebayo for other Nigerians to learn from his story.
The RRS wrote: "Jamiu Adebayo, 30 was arrested in Lagos state last week by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad for buying phones from armed robbers and ‘one chance’ gangs and repackaging them as ‘London Used Phones’. "Adebayo was tracked and found in possession of an iphone 7 belonging to one Kolade Johnson, a banker working in Lagos Island. "Johnson, had on August 23 boarded a ‘one chance’ commercial bus around 5:45 a.m. on his way to work. The robbers, operating with the commercial bus dispossessed him of a laptop and 2 phones, one of which was traced to Adebayo while trying to sell it to a customer in Lagos Island as a ‘London used phone’.
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