pmoye:
This is obviously a stereotype, and stereotypes are dangerous. That they are young and they drive a nice ride doesn't automatically make them criminals. Neither is their hairstyle a reason for that conclusion. Years ago while doing my PhD in Europe I was on braids as a guy and I have never in my life being into any kind of fraud. Had you or the Nigerian police seen me then and in a fine ride they would have concluded I was a criminal.

Our law says: innocent UNTIL proven guilty. Right to that innocence before being judicially proven to be guilty is a fundamental human right. Even for a suspect caught in the act. That is the secular constitution that guides us. It should guide us as citizens of Nigeria and we should insist that it also guides the law enforcement.

Nigerians should normalize crashing the traffic in solidarity with citizens are who being victimized by the police on the highway. That's a powerful way to drive sense into these police officers.

It is not a crime to be young and rich. Many of us who had been thus previously profiled while Nigeria can testify that it is a very bad indeed.

Police officers stopping you:
sizing your age up from your looks,
looking again at your ride and asking you if you are the owner,
you handing over all up-to-date documents to him when he asked for it
getting angry that he has nothing to hold onto
asking for your source of livelihood

Everything checks out, and the police still going on about arresting you...just for being young ... At that point I simply ask them to lead me to their station. I have done this several times in Nigeria and the drive to their station affords me enough time to call the lawyers (oh I never hand over my phone to any police officer, never!). I also ensure I do not travel alone. Very important. At the station I always ask to talk to the most superior officer who in my experience usually happen to have a good deal of humanity, and most times they turn it to a joke and beg me to give the boys something..

samuel19222:
I was at the scene morning around 10 am when the police was trying to stop these young men in their benz but the young men dont wanna stop and the police had to block the highway because of them and in the process causing alot of traffic, it happen opposite Nestle plc along the busy idiroko road.

Chinedu2dope:
forget about there looks/appearance..they might be doing something legal..I don't y we judge by looks/hairstyle n the rest.

SegFault:

You know ehn, wetin dey vex me be say you people wey hold bar to commot this country, una still dey come back, to do wetin bikonu? Man if I smell abroad ehn, thunder fire me if I come back here.

infogenerator:
Looking at the photos we all know what's going on.

✓The Young guys driving benz are obviously into something not too far from illegal.

✓The police obviously knows this, hence they are bent on stopping them and collecting their share.

✓Things have gotten so bad in this country, that in situations like this, you don't even know who to support. Everybody is just wrong one way or the other.

Na family fight, make we rest jare!

infogenerator:
Looking at the photos we all know what's going on.

✓The Young guys driving benz are obviously into something not too far from illegal.

✓The police obviously knows this, hence they are bent on stopping them and collecting their share.

✓Things have gotten so bad in this country, that in situations like this, you don't even know who to support. Everybody is just wrong one way or the other.

Na family fight, make we rest jare!

dafeoroyo:
What's wrong with our youth of this day? Driving a Benz does not warrant you above the law,if police are doing their allow them,always be slow.to anger

Live a coded and quiet live,I know one man in my area,the man has like 10 house scattered all around my area,very coded a man,with many cars,if u see the man very quiet,always on short knicker you can never know this man have money

Passionate888:
I blame buhari, where the change wey him promise them? That dul lard no do any tangible thing sef

pmoye:
I perfectly understand where you are coming from. I was thinking exactly like this more than a decade ago before I left... But then I left and realized that Nigeria will always be home for me. As terrible and toxic as our society often gets in Nigeria, there's no where else in the world that I would be and not wish I was home...

And reading the history of different developed countries, it's easy to see that they all passed through the phase we are going through in Nigeria. Someday, perhaps not in our time, we too will get there... In fact, I am still of the opinion that down the line in time this world will someday witness Nigeria as the global power. We have the fundamentals... the ruggedness of an average Nigerian, the resourcefulness to make it at all cost (even though poor value system often lands many Nigerians on the criminal side here), the doggedness (Nigerians survive anywhere and everywhere), the fierce sense of hope and optimism, the population, the unmatched sense of humor, and so on... Leadership is all that is left; and there is that probability that we are close to getting that right. May not be at the national level to start with... a couple of states is what is required to get leadership right and the fire will catch on.

Someday, Nigeria will make every black man proud of being an African. That's probably still the Nigerian in me talking.

ibawon:


How the hell did we get here
You see a bunch of boys in Mercedes Benz Car, then it raises suspicions that they are into something Illegal.
So I am 20 something in a Benz warrants everyone to be suspicious of me. And see the way people are liking the comment.
Nigerians we are our own evil

samuel19222:
Damnn nigga, see how person get liver dey follow police dey drag.
benefit crew i think.

udemzyudex:

The guys don drop tire, that day them just refuse to drop.

One of my guy tell me wetin happen when him comot I shock, two guys follow one way just to beat traffic, police stop them oo, these ones begin give police voice, dey even say nothing go happen.

Police give way ooo.

See ehn na FG backing and gun dey give them power ooo, in fact na the FG backing alone cos if na gun, guys no send again.

SegFault:

Or it would never happen and we will remain a shithole. When did China, Singapore and the UAE start developing. Make we leave that talk abeg, Africa is cursed. Besides Nigerians are not optimistic, that is one thing I love about us, all of us no say las las naija go remain shithole till maybe we jam another colonisation.

illicit:
Damnnnnn niggarrr

isorite

Brandonx:
Why struggle with a police officer
Except they don't know Nigerian police officers.
If you cannot run from them just negotiate because as it is now if they succeed in taking those guys to the station them go pay heavily.

Oduduwa707:


So typical of Trump supporters from dat Jungle.

daddytime:
Dat one dey naked like say e go deter Nigerian Police wey kukuma be expert to use bullet naked their victims.

Dem get luck say no be for koror dem jam dem na their naked bloodied body with some kind rusty AK and pumpy for dey on top their lifeless bodies with the caption " Idi-Iroko Police gun down trans-border armed robbers in gunfire".

If no be Police wey don useless themselves to nonsense tell me why these yeye boys no go obey police order for stop and search if no be see finish.

One of the olopa sef resemble my uncle wey CSP for that zone. If you hear how these black men dey waste lives ehn, you go shake your head.

These guys get something to hide sha and police dey always know. Dem die well for roger hand.

Thomthom:
Pay heavily if they are really into something fishy.. if not na to go court sure pass

Bigflamie:
Naija is just a crime scene. The people we entrust our security are now making life hard for us to live in.

Righteousness 69 fvck style, where are thou?