Some residents of Ikeja area of Lagos State, on Thursday, nabbed a man for allegedly stealing bras and pants from where they were spread.
Some residents who saw the man collecting the underwear, questioned him to show the content of the bag he was carrying.
The man was reportedly said to have threatened to deal with the people for insulting him, but some youths at the scene forced the man to open the bag.
According to an eyewitness, when the man finally opened the bag, bras, pants and other clothing items were found in it.
Owing to his inability to provide any explanation for his actions, the crowd almost mobbed him but for the arrival of policemen came and took him away.
The eyewitness explained, “We were upstairs and all of a sudden, one of us, Tunde, saw a man picking up bras, pants and some clothes that were spread outside.
“When he was done, he looked in different directions to ensure that nobody saw him. As he began walking away with those items, we came down and alerted other residents, who stopped him.
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“Rather than being remorseful, the man began threatening that he would deal with us for insulting him.
“When the people asked him to open the bag he was carrying, he bragged that he was going to beat them up. But when the people forced him to open the bag, they were surprised to see bras, pants and clothes in the bag.”
It would be recalled that two young men had also been nabbed in Lagos for picking up female underwear from where they were spread earlier this week.
However, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Chike Oti, said the incident had not been reported to the police.
He said, “Nothing like that was reported at our end. I called all the divisions in the Area ‘F’; I even called the commander, who also called the divisional police officers one by one, and they said the incident of bras and pants theft by a man had not been reported to them.
“Even if it happened, the people did not report to us.”