Today i went to state CID to get a certificate of clearance from the police.
After my horrible and terrific experience with the police, then i realized that if the police really want to fight crimes in our society, they will do it without stress. On the day of our biometic a guy came there too for the same purpose. Infact the guy was in front of me.
The police man requested for the phone number of the guy. After inputing the phone number on their server they detected something strange. The guys phone number was showing red alert. The police man smiled and looked at the guy and asked him, how long have been using this phone number? The guy innocently answered "officer i don dey use this phone number for over 10yrs.
The police man asked him again the phone you are using how long have you been using it?
The guy at this point has not realised something is wrong, he said " officer i just bought this phone last.
Then the police man asked us to give him a minute. Behold when he returned he came with two heavily armed police officers. So they started to intorogate the guy if he has receipt for the phone. And if the guy can take them to the shop where he bought the phone. At that point it done to the guy that he has entered one chance. So the guy told them he bought the phone from someone. But he didnt know the person. So the police told him that the phone was reported to have been stolen and the owner came to report the matter at station with the phone serial number. That on putting his phone number on the biometric data base system it showed that his sim card is displaying on the serial number of that stolen phone.
Look at someone that innocently came to pick up certificate of no criminal record has find himself in hot soup for buying a phone from someone. The guy was thrown into the cell. What happened to him later i cant tell but what i saw thought me a great lesson.
Hence i decided to share this experience here so that others can also learn from it.
Buying second hand gadget from people is very risky o even with receipt because a lot of people can manufacture receipt if they want to sell a stolen product. So abeg try visit shops to buy your gadget.