I had always been hearing about Police harassment, i never thought it would one day be my turn. I consider myself a very peaceful perso...
I had always been hearing about Police harassment, i never
thought it would one day be my turn. I consider myself a very peaceful person
and even my disposition enough will send a signal to anyone that cares to
observe that “I won’t be able to hurt even a single fly”
I was coming from a neighbouring state over the weekend and
took a Tricycle from Meiran towards Command, around Ipaja Area.
On getting to the Junction where the Meiran Police Station
is sited. A Police man spotted me and i noticed he stood from his seat immediately
and started making some calls. He felt so disturbed like there was some sort of
a red alert. Something told me he was coming for me.
Lo and behold, after some few minutes, a bike over-took us
and the Police man was his passenger. He asked the rider to stop and everyone
was being searched. I just maintain my cool becasue i knew i was his target.
He came to me and the 1st question he asked was
where i worked. I told him and he demanded for my ID, which unfortunately I
left at home. He said I would need to send someone to my house (Which is not in
Lagos) to go get it. He then asked what was in my bag and I told him it was my
laptop. He felt some kind of spark in him and immediately mentioned I would
have to follow him to the Police Station for further investigation.
I tried to pacify him and asked him what my offence was. He
just replied that I would know that when I get to the station. I followed.
On getting to Meiran Police Station, He and his fellow were
trying to take me to a back office, which I refused and asked them to take me to the main station and let’s sort
all out officially. At that moment, their DPO noticed us and asked us all to
come around to his office.
Immediately we got to the DPO’s office, the 1st
thing the Police man told the DPO was that I saw them while I was passing by
their Police Staion and felt jittery. I just kept silent and didn’t want to
incite any wrath as they are known for twisting things. But before he could
proceed, some other Police men came in with a guy in handcuff. He happened to
be on their wanted list and attention was diverted from me.
The 2
Policemen later asked me to follow them and took me to a different room.
Getting there, he asked me to confess if I had anything incrminating in my bag
before he started sorting so he can know the steps to take in my case. I told I
had nothing.
He went ahead
to check all my documents and saw official documents that were related to my
workplace. He was trying to get something to implicate me, but saw nothing. At
a point, he saw my Pension report from Leadway Pensure and he asked what I was
doing with that. That how could a young guy like me have started Pension
savings, that I fabricated that. I just smiled.
On making
further enquiries into my documents, he saw the Invoices I receive at the Post
Office anytime I go there to clear the items I import. He said he had an idea
about that kind of scam, that they had arrested some guys in the past that do
Post Office scam. I explained to him that that was the invoice I get at the
Post Office.
He later saw
a lady’s CV among my document and also
asked what that was doing there. That I was into Jobs scam. I wonder the kind
of super illetrates that were being recruited into the Force.
After
checking all my documents, he saw nothing incriminating and then decided to
check my Tablet. He went staright to my Whatsapp Chats and started checking
them out.
After some few minutes of reading through my messages and saw nothing
incriminating. He told his colleague “ Boggay, this guy clean. Infact this guy
is not Jesus Christ, but with what am seeing on his phone, he will bless us. He
is into Bitcoin Business”
I just smiled
and asked him what they wanted from me. He said that was a weekend and they
have families, so I will have to sort them with some cash. I asked what that
was for. At least he had said I was clean. He replied harshly that why would he
be asking me for cash if there was no purpose for it. He claiemd the DPO was
expecting to see me and if they took me to him, he would lock me up. For what
offence?
They
eventually asked me to pay them N5000. It wasn’t a big deal, but for what
purpose. I told them I had no cash but I could make a transfer to their
account. I just needed to get their names because they had covered their
uniforms with their Bullet Vests. The account number would allow me get that.
They refused and asked that I follow them to a nearby ATM point.
We couldnt
get the cash at the ATM, but they eventually got N3000 cash from me. One of
them( His name is David) later gave me
his number asking that I would teach him about Bitcoins, was complaining
bitterly about being so poor and not having enough to feed his family.
If I had
reported the case to my Dad’s Boss, whom am so sure would be so connected to
the Commissioner of Police. I am sure they would be in soup by now. I decided
not to tell anyone, until today when I remembered one of them slapped me when I
was trying to ask him a question. The same guy that wanted to learn about
Bitcoin.
Then I
decided to put it online. I have his phone number already. I just need opinions
on what next action to take. As he needs to pay for slapping me. I didn’t
deserve that in any way