There was a mild drama at the Moremi Female Hostel in the University of Lagos (UNILAG) when residents caught a robbery suspect. A stud...
There was a mild drama at the Moremi Female Hostel in the University of Lagos (UNILAG) when residents caught a robbery suspect.
A student website, reported that the robber was pummeled by an angry mob of female students after he was apprehended with the help of porters.
The reports said that incidents of thefts were rampant during examination periods as most students abandon their hostels to take time to read in classrooms at night.
Suspected thieves reportedly take advantage of the situation to rob students of valuables like phones and laptops.
“Come and see the way students beat him,” a student resident in the female hostel told the news portal
“You mean male students came from their hostels to beat the thief?” the reporter asked
“No, the girls descended on him and taught him a big lesson,” the student who doesn’t want to be named replied.
It is not clear if the “thief” intended or attempted raping the female student he found alone when he reportedly broke into one of the hostel rooms around 2:00 a.m.
But eyewitnesses said there was a struggle between the two before hostel security officials stepped in.
They also said the suspected thief was “armed” with a chemical substance he probably intended to make his victims dizzy or sleep off.
After he was apprehended, the suspected thief allegedly claimed he was not a thief but was present in the hostel after “someone called me here,” eyewitnesses said.
“I saw a crowd approaching from the F-Wing dragging this young man,” a female student who stays in Moremi Hall wrote in a blog post after the incident.
The girls reportedly gave the suspected thief the beating of his life.
