A NIGERIAN businessman is urging fellow shop-owners to be vigilant this Christmas after his IT repair business was broken into for the fourth time in a fortnight.
Ademola Fazaz, owner of Deal City at 6 Moore Street in Dublin, told Metro Éireann that at least 10 laptop computers which customers had left in for repair were stolen following break-ins on 24 and 25 November, and 4 and 6 December, all after 7pm.
Speaking of the first incident, he said: “I went home and came back the next morning and a Garda note was on the door, saying that I shouldn’t touch anything, so I called and the gardaí came and took fingerprints. I’m hoping that they find something.”
A neighbouring business in the same unit, which had remained open late into the evening, had contacted gardaí saying “they saw men taking laptops”, said Fazaz, who had to embark on a trip to Nigeria shortly after the incident.
He is now making plans to install extra security measures at his premises, and explained that the unit’s shutter cannot be closed until all business owners occupying the facility have left.
The shop was not the only target for thieves, with a Chinese street-facing outlet in the same unit also being burgled on 6 December.
“We all have to be careful and mind what we leave in the shop,” said Fazaz, who believes some individuals in the vicinity of his business may know more about these incidents.
