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Two unidentified Nigerians have been arrested by the Kuwait General Department of Criminal Investigation in Ahmadi Governorate on suspicion of involvement in an armed robbery.

PUNCH Metro gathered from a Wednesday statement by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior, as reported by Arab Times Online, that the suspects were apprehended within 24 hours of carrying out a robbery at an exchange office in Mahboula, a district in the southern part of Kuwait City.

A 35-second video of the robbery, viewed by PUNCH Metro on Wednesday on the Arab Times Online website, shows one of the suspects, wearing a hooded top, exiting a white car before entering the exchange office.

Upon entering the office, the same suspect is seen in a short, inaudible video pointing what appeared to be a gun at the exchange office staff, as observed by our correspondent.

The suspects reportedly stole foreign currencies equivalent to 4,600 Kuwaiti Dinars, valued at approximately $14,918.69, using the currencyconvertonline.com conversion rate.

The report read, “Investigation revealed that the gang meticulously planned the crime, monitoring the exchange offices from nearby rooftops to identify peak times.

“They also used stolen licence plates to conceal the identities of the vehicles involved in the operation.”

One of the suspects, whose name was not disclosed, reportedly confessed after his arrest in Mahboula that he had surveyed the location and informed his accomplice, whose name was also undisclosed, when the office was clear of customers.

“The second suspect was apprehended in the Al-Qurain Market, and the stolen money, along with a small bag containing the narcotic substance ‘crystal meth,’ was recovered from his residence.

“The Ministry of Interior confirmed that the suspects and seized items have been referred to the public prosecution for further legal action,” the report read.

PUNCH Metro recalls that in 2019, some Nigerians were captured on video carrying out an armed robbery in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

During the same period, a Nigerian female drug trafficker, along with three other men, two from Pakistan and one from Yemen, was executed for drug trafficking offences.

The current Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission and former aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari on Diaspora Matters, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, had stated in an interview with journalists in Abuja that the executed woman was the eighth person to be executed for drug-related offences in the oil-rich kingdom within the past three years.

https://punchng.com/kuwait-arrests-two-nigerians-for-alleged-14918-robbery/

Video:
https://www.arabtimesonline.com/news/nigerian-gang-arrested-for-armed-robbery-at-mahboula-money-exchange/

Nigerians and crime

Since they're still unidentified then how come they tagged them as Nigerians? What if they're from Congo or Malawi.

Jail time unlocked!

madridguy:
Since they're still unidentified then how come they tagged them as Nigerians? What if they're from Congo or Malawi.

Bro, no dey dull yourself, the authorities have their data captured on arrival. The authorities have not released the names in the media for whatever reason known to them.

The year is to early to serve a jail time..Akpi knows this 🤭

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Picks up calculator, using a rate of 1600, that is, errmm, N23, 868, 800. These ones don come impress Lagos babes for detty December, they come dey "hustle" to you know, idiots. Good radiance to bad rubbish.


-Kiss the truth!

Developers tarnishing Nigeria's image home and abroad

See the shape, dem dem. Asian prisons are full, they're now porting to Arab prisons.

Na Mumu no know where they are from! People that keeps on tarnishing the image of our dear country ! They wan to use arm robbery and coke money to rival Elon musk!

Behead them on our behalf ,kuwait please

Whether they mention their names or not, we already know them.

Ndi developers and I must blow by fire by fire.

Shinedu and shukwudi
Ndewoooooooo

Nawa oh! So it is not bad enough we are known for fraud in the West, drug trafficking in South Asia and human trafficking in Italy? Some morafuckers want to add armed robbery to the Gulf Middle East?

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What an audacity, na WA oh, please don't jail nor deport them, firing squad should be used

Toh

Shame on them

We know who they are.

This is embarrassing, you guys need to stop putting hardworking Nigerians abroad through ignominy.

Rip to them in advance

These people always enbarrasing themselves!

Kuwait 🇰🇼 😮
This guys did not think well before coming out for this mission..

See 2 of Una
See JAIL!!!

Notorious pikin!

Omo adojutini!

Because they are yorubas una no put their names abi? ...

Give them capital punishment so that others will learn and stop disgracing Nigeria

Crime doesn't pay in Nigeria except it's political in nature then it becomes a legal crime.

#foodforthought

This looks like the work of DEVELOPERS.. Na them cause ban for Dubai sef

Hmmm.

Yoruba wind of developers

Ok