2 notorious pickpockets arrested in Lagos! All thanks to secondary school pupils

Taoreed Ashimiyu, 24 and Kayode Jolade, 34 were two successful pickpocket partners shuttling between Maryland and Mile 12 Markets in buses.

Their targets were commuters’ mobile phones and purses.

They stood at bus stops monitoring commuters with fat and bulging pockets and they stealthily remove these valuables while commuters rush to board buses.

While one did the picking, the other kept the loot till the end of the day’s work.

Not known to the duo, Maryland school pupils who had spotted them in one of the operations had mobilized themselves to lynch them one fateful day but as fate would have it, the pupils had all converged at the Maryland bus stop when they spotted them on operation.

In their multitude, the pupils launched at Ashimiyu in an attempt to lynch him.

Seeing the surging crowd, Ashimiyu attempted to escape to the other side of the road but ran into an oncoming truck, which knocked him off the road only to be rescued by Rapid Response Squad operatives who were monitoring the unfolding scenery.

His accomplice- Jolade, equally took to his heels on sensing danger but was similarly arrested by onlookers who heard they were pickpockets.

Great job kids! but call the attention of an adult, peradventure similar occurrence takes place in the future.