Dear Nigeria,
Yesterday been Sunday, I had to do a lot of running around; trying to resolve an issue. I was at C division of Nigeria police in North bank, makurdi, Benue State, in company of two senior friends trying to secure a bail for someone I had known for a while. Upon inquiring about the case, the officer in charge of the case gave us his brief and at some time didn’t let the defendant even speak. The issue was the defendant as a business man had conducted several businesses with a serving military officer Brigadier General Mshelia, he was in makurdi at a time before his posting out of makurdi and the worth of this particular business was four hundred and fifty thousand of which the defendant paid immediately seventy thousand. Since on Saturday afternoon, Brigadier General Mshelia from Borno State, ordered his subordinates(Army officers) to go and effect the arrest of the defendant and taken to a police station and lock him up. This was done with the Benue State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Yarida, who now takes his orders from the Army General. The said sum of money has been paid in full as at this morning but according to the Benue State commissioner of police; he hasn’t gotten the order to release the defendant from the General even at the time of posting this. The defendant has spent more than three days in detention and where as the money has been paid the commissioner and his friend who are paid with tax payers’ money is using his office to perpetuate this illegality. The DPO of C division is doing everything to impress the Commissioner and has had to make several reports to his boss on this matter, keeping his boss up to date and going out of his way to make life difficult for the defendant. Where as it is boldly written on the walls of this police station bail is free and suspects cannot be kept for more than 48hours in a civil case, this suspect has neither been granted bail nor charged to court. I urge Nigerians to take this as a social media petition against this law officers and share this petition until it gets to Mr. President, the Chief of Army Staff, and the inspector general of police, for them to act on this immediately, and save this young man’s life. Officers of the law must not be allowed to break the law.

Na wah oh. The IGP should hear abt this.

But y imsef go use d general take play b4. I no support dem o, but y