Police in Lagos on Tuesday arrested two mobile telephone thieves with different brands, types and sizes of phones. It was disclosed that stealing the phones through various means such as, at gunpoint, pickpocket and in traffic, they repack them as London used phones.


"Any time you buy that London used phone, you could be buying your way to prison. Stolen phones are now packaged as London used.


Most of those phones were collected at gun-point, in traffic, pickpocket etc. Know the source of the phone you are buying," they warned.