I have always read news of police brutality online but never fully understood what the victims went through until I had a first hand experience on Wednesday, 13th July, 2016.
On that very day, which has become a day I will never forget in my life, I was headed to jibowu to assist my sister get a bus back to the east after her visit to Lagos. Just before the park area, there was a police checkpoint and as I was walking towards the park with my sister, one of the police officers at the checkpoint signaled me to come. When I went to answer him, he demanded for my phone, I brought it out, he collected it and started scrolling through my contacts. The next thing I heard was "You are a criminal! Wetin foreign number dey do for your phone?……...". The contact in question is that of my school friend who just went to the UK for his masters program, but before I could say Jack, I have been pushed into their vehicle, a danfo bus with the registration number, XU754LND.
Each time I demanded to know what exactly my crime was, the response I got was something like "Keep Quiet! Shut Up! You are a thief! You are a criminal!…..."
My sister was not also spared of the harassment. At that point, I had to raise my voice attracting passerby's who also demanded to know when having a foreign contact has become a crime. Suddenly, their oga instructed them to move.
I don't know how the thoughts came to me but before they moved, I jumped out of the bus through the window. With the heightened tension and the increasing number of people gathering there, they just threw my phone at me and sped off.

The following day, a friend of mine suggested I make a report at a police station. I took the advice and went to Alagbon Police Statio, Ikoyi. Do you know what they told me there? That since they no longer have my phone, I shouldn't worry, that "It's a normal thing". The Nigerian police literally told me that harassment of innocent citizens is a normal thing. Who else do I report to?

My understanding is that there are dozens of similar cases that go unnoticed daily especially in Lagos. As it is, I think the only way police brutality may be put to a near end is by giving such cases as much publicity as possible. May be at some point in the future, someone in a position of authority may be touched to take genuine actions to put an end to it and not just pay lip service.

Wow...so you jumped out of police vehicle and u were not shot? Bro, congratulations. You just escaped a story that touched from being displayed on Nairaland front page

[b]The Nigerian police literally told me that harassment of innocent citizens is a normal thing.[/


Consider yr self lucky this time
Who knows what will happen next time
Help dismantle the zoo

jet li

And over 800,000 people still applied for 10,000 job opening in the Nigerian Police Force. Na wa for we country o

kaffy4tope:
Wow...so you jumped out of police vehicle and u were not shot? Bro, congratulations. You just escaped a story that touched from being displayed on Nairaland front page

My brother, pondering over it now, am not sure I will have the courage to do that again. I think it was the bystanders that encouraged me to that otherwise I would have been extorted or even locked up at the station.

police is Ur friend, I doubt

Yo now see what watching Hollywood does to your emergency response?

I bet if this dude had being watching mexican soaps and all that movies that teach you how to sobber, he'd have being crying and trying to contact his sister.

Police's same everywhere, but, ours seem to be too decayed. A psycological test and total over-haul if yo ask me. But again, they might be forced to bend-over cause in this harsh economy and mean environment, sharks can turn cray-fish and vice-versa.

A very sound economy and warm environment first before anything follows. So till then AVOID THE COPS.

limeta:
[b]The Nigerian police literally told me that harassment of innocent citizens is a normal thing.[/


Consider yr self lucky this time
Who knows what will happen next time
Help dismantle the zoo

So are yo tryna tell me there weren't any ibo man in their midst? Look, i'm not against your biafra but calling my country and the country you were born in a zoo? Doesn't make you an animal?

Polite questions require polite answers.

waxxydude:
So are yo tryna tell me there weren't any ibo man in their midst? Look, i'm not against your biafra but calling my country and the country you were born in a zoo? Doesn't make you an animal?

Polite questions require polite answers.

I tire for you
how ibo enter this now
Is it only ibos who know what is good for them

limeta:



I tire for you
how ibo enter this now
Is it only ibos who know what is good for them

Sorry i brought ibos into this, but, it's a common thing for them. I'm from the ND, i don't like the going's in here (Nigeria) - this administration and all, but calling the house i live in a zoo? How do yo think neigbhours will look at you?

Sis think this through, there are better names, better ways to vent your frustration, but Zoo?

waxxydude:
Sorry i brought ibos into this, but, it's a common thing for them. I'm from the ND, i don't like the going's in here (Nigeria) - this administration and all, but calling the house i live in a zoo? How do yo think neigbhours will look at you?

Sis think this through, there are better names, better ways to vent your frustration, but Zoo?

My guy you a good person don,t get me wrong.
But good people die, while bad people live prosper and multiply.
You need to travel out to see human countries .
A zoo is a zoo... sorry

Next time endeavour to get the code number and if possible the name of the officer in operation so that you can make a detailed report and possibly approach the court if need be.
Just an advise though.

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Crazy. Which policeman still does that? Archaic.

U are lucky dem no shoot u for naysh as u de jump out through the window

Me I have more than 20 foreign numbers on my phone and can back it up.

I told her I own a story building.... she promised to come.... will she be angry at me when she comes?

Ehya sorry eh..


Do it.....

USELESS people


Anybody wey dress fine carry Iphone na yahoo boy

This attitude is becoming alarming , and it seems they always get away with it , Trust me i have been there , it came to a point when i thought snatching one rifle and shooting every officer in that Police station they took me to was the next thing every police officer in that station Area commander i think is very very very very very corrupt , It's not a crime to own a laptop or an Iphone and it's not a crime to download sexy screen savers on your phone
, of course i didn't care if i lived or died , i thought as long as i took as much as 20 officers with me i'd be fine


Police, SARS especially SARS are armed robbers in UNIFORM and IG has not done anything about it ,

I have witnessed a scene where policemen harassed someone all because he had a tattoo,and looking tushed up..

Nigeria police are insanely insane..mad men in police uniform.

[size=13pt]Nigeria Police always on TOP of their jobs[/size]

Local people. You're lucky o

Lol, Nigerian police wil be like " who u know for America if no be sey u be yahoo Boi " lol

.

Nah hungry dey wire police no b der fault my brother, economy is bad everywhere you go like MTN

NPF they will never change.

Area C has one bus that goes around now, that's their specialization, '' bring your phone''..... Yaba-jibowu-akoka axis... Anytime they stop me, I just say, oga you stop me last week naaah... They'll laugh and say go

Nigeria police force is a disgrace!

Sue them. Lol
Bastrards in black.