Nigerians have always asked if it's right for a police officer to search mobile phones during a routine stop and search exercise on the road.

The Lagos State Police PRO, Dolapo Badmus has told us the answer.

In her words she said:

"Your phone is private, it's your private property because people do alot of private stuffs on their mobile phones so it's wrong. Police officers have no right to do that except there is a reasonable ground to do so".

Although this has always been a matter of public records, officers of the Nigerian pokice have acted like they don’t know and even when citizens that tell them, they are harassed or beaten

Watch the video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7epuoReCmu8

Your phone is your private property not until you meet with SARS

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By the time you chop slap, na you go drop am

story. d rogues in the npf don't abide by laws

police never fit obey laws enshrined in the constitution that has to do with citizens right....when una say "bail is free" but we still pay 4 it...na checking of phone..abeg tell us another thing.

Tell you people they don't have right to check our phones instead...

Because we are just as helpless as a sick cockroach in the mist of fowl when we are asked to bring our phone for checking..



As for the people who will come on this thread to make mouth, pray you don't meet a trigger happy SARS official. Yoy may not be lucky to tell your story.

Madam, who defines a reasonable ground when you are getting gbos, gbosas and Jackie Chan kicks to your face and body? Your SARS operatives would have killed someone for resisting them from checking his phone. Mschew

with adequate threat and at the sight of gun abi...….you don't need to tell us...go and enlighten your people...…..


once you are dead you are dead so comply now and report later

You said what ?

Hmmmm. One slap from the police officer like this, you will sharply release the password of the phone and even realize the grammar you have been speaking to fight for your human rights is nothing but audio intelligence. May God help us for this country.

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Thats true sha, they only scare people and do not have the power to check our phones only if we know our rights.

But me i will give them my phone to check o. Isit not just phone? I can report them if and only if I am alive.

I am not dumb enough to argue with policeman with a gun

This pro should be telling the officers not we the ordinary pple

na today??

I need this woman's phone number,who can help me with it please?

Your Phone is no longer Private during an Investigation don't be stupid, so long there is a warrant of arrest, or crime being committed, or suspected to be committed my brother Dolapo is trying to scam you

If phones are not meant to be searched then Aso Rock Assistant Director's murderer would still be at large without any suspect,

The only thing you can keep private is your Cloud and online backup, if you stupidly keep your stuff on your phone because Dolapo said it is Private then I am sorry for you


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Na today?story story lol

Okay message received.

But this is dissapointing coming from a PRO.

I mean, no fluency, no eloquency, sounded unsure at some point.

I think the Lagos Police force can do better to nominate a better candidate for their Public Relations.

We know this scope madam...


You will now go behind and tell them to continue but if caught they are on their own.

hisexcellency34:
na today??

All this space bookers sef

Rubbish,you keep telling us as if we don't know already,you better tell this old sh1t story to your officers and stop disturbing us with it.

Tell your officers not us.

Lol..

Am not sad for the SARS guys but these fools officers that keeps saying these things week in week out knowing fully well that its hog wash

They think we dumb or what?

Hehehe! Na so.
Nigerian Officers will say one thing in public and another amongst themselves inside Police Station.

Ooin! I say,Ooin lol

Shame on the NPF for placing the onus on the citizen..

Stipulate harder terms for offenders within the police...

Make it legally wrong for the police to be possession of a an accosted citizens phone whether voluntary or not..

As if the police will listen.

Make I do strong head, make dem use gun on me ba, come term me as thief ba?

As long as I don't have any incriminating things on my phone, I will just jejely give them to do whatever they want to do with it.

Nigerian police don't deserve my stress abeg

Listen to her at your own risk.

Nigeria police are mad, you don't argue your right with mad person. You only nod, play along with them, and move on to stay alive another day.

Is that not the celebrity police officer?

Help Us tell SARS

forget this talk and be be my sugar mummy please. i no need money

Enter the streets and tell that to the uselesss officers, because they don't have phones.

Even those wey get no dey read news.