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Services Front Page Back Page Advert Rates Subscription News Home National International Business News Abuja Reports Sports Politics Sun Girl Editorial Editorial Issues Letters Opinion Columnists Community Standard Guestbook View Guestbook Sun Chatroom   Features Apettit Arts BlockBuster CEO Magazine Celebrity Fashion City Sun Crime Watch Covert Choice CyberSun Enterprise Everyday Heroes Exquisite Property Fashion & Celebrity Fashion & Beauty Favourite File Health Magazine How I write Life Style Living Mafia Series Man in the street Man in the pulpit Managing a Law Firm Me & My God Media People Money Motoring Power Game Romance Romantic Faction Senior Citizen Showtime Smoking Guns Sun Splash Sunlight of Islam Travels Window of the world Window on widows Woman of the Sun Women in Business Women & Me Videoscope Weekend Sun Saturday Sun Sunday Sun Weekend Sports Weekend Cartoons Company Profile About Us Management Contact Us   I can’t stop stealing - Idris By AKIN ALOFETEKUN, Minna Friday July 30, 2004   National Index For Idris Baba, who hails from Brigi Village in Bosso local government area of Niger State, both stealing and imprisonment have become a way of life. Plainly unlucky, Idris in his less than five years’ career in crime, had stolen three times and three times he was caught and jailed. Even his present predicament occasioned by his attempt to steal a Mercedes Benz station wagon turned out to be a failure. Why does he continue to steal? “I think it is bad luck following me. I don’t know, I am just not lucky. Anytime I steal, police will always come or people will catch me and I will be sent to prison” Must you steal? “What would I do.” I have tried to stop stealing but I still do it. Anytime I am in the prison, I will promise myself that if I get out I will not steal again but na lie. I know I cannot stop stealing. I have tried many times to stop and failed. “When I leave prison and I go back to Brigi, nobody wants to associate with me even my childhood friends that we grew up together on the farm. Because of this, I will run away to Minna and since there is no work for me to do in Minna, I will start to think of how I will steal.” According to Idris, his stealing career started in year 2000 when he attempted to cart away clothes in a house in Tundun Wada Area of the Niger State capital. “Police catch me, carry me to court and they sent me to prison for one year”. His second and third operations in 2001 and 2003 were not much different from the first one. He denied the insinuation that he was a jail breaker. “I don’t run away from prison. I always complete my terms. It is true they know me very well at Tundun Wada Police Station. It’s them that used to arrest me most of the times. I don’t run away from prison. They always give me one year and I used to complete it. No need for me to run”. Idris gave account of how he had jumped the fence to enter Shiroro Hotel in Minna, went straight to the black Mercedes Benz car which he opened expertly with a master key before the eagle eyed security men of the hotel swooped on him and handed him over to the police. “It is not the car I wanted to steal. I just wanted to steal the car stereo and other valuable things in the car. I don’t even know how to drive why should I want to steal a car”, Idris said.         HOME | ABOUT THE SUN | SPORTS | POLITICS | NEWS | COLUMNISTS | CONTACT US I ADVERT RATE © 2004 THE SUN PUBLISHING LTD. This service is provided on The Sun Newspapers' standard terms and conditions in accordance with our Privacy Policy. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material and other inquiries, Contact Us.

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