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Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by nlfpmod(mod): 10:17pm On Dec 03, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8OfEE4n2E

Nigerian mobile network providers will retrieve a line used by kidnappers and reassign it to another customer, now her dad has been picked by DSS for an offense he never committed.
Source

Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by chibike69: 10:22pm On Dec 03, 2025
:ozzzzzzzw errreeeeeee
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by beycity(m): 10:22pm On Dec 03, 2025
I think the network provider should be able to help but then, it’s Nigeria, nah one way traffic.
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by imexg(m): 10:23pm On Dec 03, 2025
double wahala for them body
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by johngwain: 10:23pm On Dec 03, 2025
Dss should do a proper investigation, why them no track am when bandits dey use am
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by osuofia2(m): 10:24pm On Dec 03, 2025
She should provide the kidnappers
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Buharidgeneral: 10:24pm On Dec 03, 2025
The man has been released following the intervention of well meaning Nigerians according to the lady
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by classicfrank4u(m): 10:24pm On Dec 03, 2025
This country funny, so you guys didn't track it when the kidnappers used it to make calls, it is after the number has obviously been recycled you remembered how to track cheesy
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Melagros(m): 10:24pm On Dec 03, 2025
COMRADES are speechless, this victim is really in for it
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Ecomfreecourse: 10:25pm On Dec 03, 2025
So dss failed to track the line when terrorist was using it abi? Nigeria is a complete failed state.
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Nazgul: 10:26pm On Dec 03, 2025
So throughout the entire period that the SIM was with the kidnappers, DSS couldn’t trace or arrest them. But the moment the criminals dumped the SIM and an innocent citizen unknowingly bought it, they suddenly mobilised and swooped on him like he’s the mastermind.

How does this even make sense? This country will frustrate and jail you for crimes you didn’t commit, while the real perpetrators walk free.
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Sucolee(m): 10:26pm On Dec 03, 2025
Tom boy no dey cry now,common wipe ur tears
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by muyico(m): 10:27pm On Dec 03, 2025
So Nigeria defend have gotten to this extent??
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Hismercy234: 10:27pm On Dec 03, 2025
Very simple case, get evidence when you bought it from the system and when the kidnapping was carried out. You don't need an expert lawyer to win this.
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Kalashnikov49: 10:27pm On Dec 03, 2025
But PATANMI was shouting NIN was compulsory and an identification model that is bulletproof.

We know the people that supported the failed project. They are still the same people claiming to love NIGERIA, but only to grab,snatch and runaway with it .

Imagine buying NIN details for #100 on the internet, but same details when active can't be used to track Terrorists in the bush.

Losers
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by ogolemati: 10:29pm On Dec 03, 2025
shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked they didn't track it when it was in the hand of people with more guns than DSS.

Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Eriokanmi: 10:29pm On Dec 03, 2025
Why not arrest the kidnapper when he was still using tge SIM?
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Segzy19: 10:30pm On Dec 03, 2025
Nigeria has a way of messing people up, and most of us and our institutions are complicit in it.

Yes, the man could have made an innocent mistake by buying the sim card by the roadside but then how did those SIM card find their way to the roadside? Who are those roadside sellers representing?
If the SIM were to be fake or unauthorized why would the SIM registration sail through and be approved?

I hope DSS does its work thoroughly...

Again, this is a lesson for us all to always follow the proper channel no matter how long and tedious it may be.
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Orlandoo(m): 10:30pm On Dec 03, 2025
Nigeria under Tinubu is in dissaray
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by faceland: 10:32pm On Dec 03, 2025
Ecomfreecourse:
So dss failed to track the line when terrorist was using it abi? Nigeria is a complete failed state.
Even worst, they did contact the network that reassigned it away.
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by latiephwald: 10:34pm On Dec 03, 2025
When the SIM was with the kidnapper, they couldn't track it. What a useless country.

It's very simple, network provider will show the date of registration to new user and confirm the last call of the old user (kidnapper). Finish!
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Brightest04(m): 10:35pm On Dec 03, 2025
Alright, the kidnappers could not be arrested, but the innocent man who brought the sim without the knowledge of who was the original owner Abi? Infact since the knew it formerly belongs to kidnappers why can't they go after the kidnappers since they knew the former owners identity
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by KonTagiousBull: 10:36pm On Dec 03, 2025
classicfrank4u:
This country funny, so you guys didn't track it when the kidnappers used it to make calls, it is after the number has obviously been recycled you remembered how to track cheesy
I hail Nigerian Security System.
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Atheistan: 10:40pm On Dec 03, 2025
beycity:
I think the network provider should be able to help but then, it’s Nigeria, nah one way traffic.
Aswear better single express lane.
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by brain54(m): 10:44pm On Dec 03, 2025
This is the fault of the network provider...


Not the security agencies.

There is no sector that is working in Nigeria...


The system everywhere is so chaotic. Things like these can't even happen in small African countries like Togo, benin or Ghana.

And we call ourselves the giant of Africa!
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by ayusco85(m): 10:51pm On Dec 03, 2025
johngwain:
Dss should do a proper investigation, why them no track am when bandits dey use am
Bandits are government children na. They cant be arrested.
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by omoadeleye(m): 10:53pm On Dec 03, 2025
As old as your papa is, he is still buying SIM at his age,

What about the SIM he has been using
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by Omalicious1: 10:53pm On Dec 03, 2025
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by DiarisGodoo:
Hismercy234:
Very simple case, get evidence when you bought it from the system and when the kidnapping was carried out. You don't need an expert lawyer to win this.
But meanwhile you've spent 5 years in jail "awaiting trial"!
You forget this is Naija!
Re: Man Arrested After Buying A Recycled SIM Used By Kidnappers by DiarisGodoo: 11:15pm On Dec 03, 2025
omoadeleye:
As old as your papa is, he is still buying SIM at his age,

What about the SIM he has been using
Maybe he's also a crook, but not in this case grin
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