Man Arrested By Police After Giving Them A Lift Narrates His Ordeals

Different people have had different encounters in the hands of the Nigerian Police Officers. Look at what is currently happening in Rivers State, Nigeria.

Some people would prefer and encounter with an armed robber than with an ordinary policeman. Here is the story we found on Information Nigeria about a Lagosian who gave two police officers a lift in his car, but was paid back by being arrested by the same policemen he gave the lift.

Here is the story:

This could be unbelieveable to a stranger in Nigeria but to virtually all Nigerians, including a day old baby, police officers have same identity.

Ask me what could this identity be! Here is my story:

I was driving down Queens Road in Lagos when I was flagged down by two gun-toting policemen. “We need a lift,” demanded one of them. “We are going up the road.” Could I have refused? What would have happened if I had refused? It might have become a case of “resisting arrest.” I asked them to get in. One sat in front with me: the other at the back. Immediately they got in, the man in front with me found it necessary to affirm his alienation from me. He said to me: “Oga, you people are enjoying O. You get AC in your car. We, we have to stay all day in the sun.”

sincerely it shocked me! At the moment I did not utter anything. I pretended as if I did not get their discussion. But to my surprise, the other guy said, “Oga we dey talk to you, you no answer. Hope your motor get paper sha?”

my people that was the beginning. It started like joke but eventually I was taken to their station claiming to have found a suspected car. But after investigation when the documents to the car had been given to them at the station and found no allegation, I was still asked to come and bail my car.

Nigerians, what kind of identity is our law enforcement agents promoting? What kind of country is this?

When a man is arrested for a traffic offence in New York, the fine is only a fraction of the living wage. Not in Lagos. The minimum wage is 18,000 naira, but the fine for traffic offences starts ostensibly from 50,000 naira. Then you might be asked to go for a psychoanalytic evaluation which might cost another 25,000 naira. This puts the government in cahoots with the police. By imposing fines which any right-thinking person can tell the average car-owner cannot pay, the car-owner is forced to succumb to police extortion.

The discussion becomes: “How much can you pay? How much do you have?” One thing is certain: whatever amount you have will not be going to government coffers. It is going to end up in the pockets of the arresting police officer(s).

This is my encounter in the hand of police. But it’s not strange to me. Even the JTF molest Boko Haram victims. May God help us in Nigeria.

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