wwwkaycom:
I just arrived home 40 minutes ago. I was driving from Challenge in Ibadan to Akure this evening, I took off by 6 pm thinking that I'll get to my destination latest by 8.30-9.00pm because of the bad road from Ibadan to Ile-Ife. Just about to negotiate the bend that linked the Iwo Road -Oyo Expressway with Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa-Akure road at Iwo Road, I met 3 police officers who stopped me. I didn't really bother since I have all my papers intact. Having checked the papers, I thought it was time to zoom off only for the inspector among them to tell me I am driving a stolen vehicle, he pointed out to me that the VIN number on the paper is different from the one on the vehicle. The error was actually that instead of writing number 1, a small letter 'i' was written. All effort I made to convince them it was an error made at licensing office fell on deaf ears, they said I must drive the car to their station at Iwo Road or I pay 5k, all I had on me was N1200, and I wasn't willing to part with everything since I don't know where I'll see ATM machine. The ones at Iwo Road were filled up with people on long queues. I begged them to collect N500 they refused, I had to drive to their station. On getting there they asked me to write a report which I did, I called a lawyer friend who resides in Ibadan, this really infuriated the officer on duty and the one who followed me from where I was arrested. I think it's a minor issue but they really made a serious case out of it. My lawyer friend had to call a senior police officer who also called the station's DPO, they told the DPO on phone right in my presence that I argued with their inspector, drive a car with fake papers and tried to bribe an officer, please what type of country is this? The DPO later came and I explained myself to him, he look like a gentleman. He listened to me and told me I ought not to argue with them, he later asked them to release my car to me after about 10 minutes. I wanted to drive off only to discover that one of the front tyre had been deflated, I had to spend another 15 minutes changing to spare tyre. I left that station by 9.30 pm and got to Akure 12.15am. Again what manner of country is this?

mayor2013:
Use your biro to change alter the mistake made. Again whenever an issue like this arises do not follow them down to the station. Settle your matter on the spot

wwwkaycom:
I just arrived home 40 minutes ago. I was driving from Challenge in Ibadan to Akure this evening, I took off by 6 pm thinking that I'll get to my destination latest by 8.30-9.00pm because of the bad road from Ibadan to Ile-Ife. Just about to negotiate the bend that linked the Iwo Road -Oyo Expressway with Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa-Akure road at Iwo Road, I met 3 police officers who stopped me. I didn't really bother since I have all my papers intact. Having checked the papers, I thought it was time to zoom off only for the inspector among them to tell me I am driving a stolen vehicle, he pointed out to me that the VIN number on the paper is different from the one on the vehicle. The error was actually that instead of writing number 1, a small letter 'i' was written. All effort I made to convince them it was an error made at licensing office fell on deaf ears, they said I must drive the car to their station at Iwo Road or I pay 5k, all I had on me was N1200, and I wasn't willing to part with everything since I don't know where I'll see ATM machine. The ones at Iwo Road were filled up with people on long queues. I begged them to collect N500 they refused, I had to drive to their station. On getting there they asked me to write a report which I did, I called a lawyer friend who resides in Ibadan, this really infuriated the officer on duty and the one who followed me from where I was arrested. I think it's a minor issue but they really made a serious case out of it. My lawyer friend had to call a senior police officer who also called the station's DPO, they told the DPO on phone right in my presence that I argued with their inspector, drive a car with fake papers and tried to bribe an officer, please what type of country is this? The DPO later came and I explained myself to him, he look like a gentleman. He listened to me and told me I ought not to argue with them, he later asked them to release my car to me after about 10 minutes. I wanted to drive off only to discover that one of the front tyre had been deflated, I had to spend another 15 minutes changing to spare tyre. I left that station by 9.30 pm and got to Akure 12.15am. Again what manner of country is this?

timifakay:
Travelling at that time with: #1,200 cash, and without spare tyre. The Lord is your muscle oh.
Just use black biro and make the correction neatly then make a photocopy and never present the original copy again.

But come to think of it, how will someone in his or her right senses at the licensing office make such a mistake? Putting small letter in VIN!

computerglobal:



Boss ,most of them working there donot know what they are doing

Emman8:
Last offense i was accused of at that checkpoint was one of my headlight is brighter than the other one lol

hakimi1974:
walahi, those guys at iwo road are worst than garrage touts. one of them even corked his rifle at me during an argument over my car customs papers.

nakoks:
Wetin concern police with customs papers?

bravolad:


Very sad. That's the nature of the country we live in. This is becoming a routine by police officers to level all manner of alligations on motorists in order to fleece them. This incidents of extortion by police officers on duty is one case too many especially those ones at that Iwo road junction, they specialise in these kinds of situations.

You need to work based on their dumbness. More than 70% of policemen are dumb. Same tactics that they have been using before I was born is what they still carry out


From the story above, & considering that he had only 1200, I don't think he would have been able to settle it there.

diportivo:
after I was taken to their station for this same offence at that same spot,I dey avoid there like mad

if I forget to use the bypass at that big signboard before the iyana ife turning,I go past the bridge,make a u turn, and then negotiate the round about under the bridge to iyana ife

all of the policemen there are mad

very mad

timifakay:


Are you talking about the one way bypass that links Lagos to Ibadan express way to New Ife road?

Because I've never been stopped there...

diportivo:


yes

that one way bye pass

just before the bridge

where u turn right towards I've expressway

if dem neva stop u for there before then u are lucky o

I no dey pass there at all

the mumu olokpa even told me he was helping me by collecting the 3k I eventually gave him