Nigerians have attacked the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), for making an appeal to social media giant, Twitter, to erase a parody account for impersonating the organisation, Igbere TV reports.

Igbere TV earlier reports that the official account of Nigeria Police accused the parody account PoliceNGfaux of using its logo, official email, and background picture to mislead the public, an act it termed a criminal offence.

It also warned Nigeriansvon the micro-blogging platform not to follow the account and those who already followed it to unfollow the account.

The parody account started making waves recently with a string of viral posts making fun of misconducts by officers of the Force, especially regarding bribe-taking and extortion.

The account has a disclaimer in its description stating that it doesn't represent the views of the NPF.

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Lalasticlala Mynd44 Dominique

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Lalasticlala Mynd44 Dominique

Dumb people.... Always falling like Dundees. The only police na Abba Kyari. Every other one na po. The lice for the word police Don go infest their brain.

each and everyone in the police force has a wood as brain

The truth they say is bitter

It is wrong, very wrong for a parody account to use the official and legal logo of Nigeria Police.

Being a lawyer, I know @segalink will sue my black a*se if I set up a segalink parody account with his signature picture on display.

That's identity theft.

Na so, that account go cause sleepless night to all dem police officers. its nt the first parody account on an organisation neither would it be the last