A man who goes by the name Maido on IG, shared his brutal experience
with men of the Nigerian police yesterday. According to him, he was
attacked because he refused to surrender his phone. He wrote;
"Yesterday was the worst day of my life, infact I almost lost it. At
about 7pm I was driving along lagos-Ibadan express way with a friend,
when we noticed a car closing up on ours and someone waving to us,
asking us to stop.
After I took sometime to observe I suspected it was
the police and I pulled over. Actually they weren't even in a police
vehicle so I couldn't have noticed early enough. They were armed, one of
them furiously came to me shouting. He said they have been trying to
stop me or chasing me for a while. I was suprised because I did not
notice at all. There were three of them, only one was on uniform. They
immediately started cursing and using vulgar words on us, they called us
criminals for no reason, after so much interrogation they decided to do
a search on the vehicle, I consented to that, and when they could not
find anything incriminating in the car they demanded to search our
phones. I refused them checking my phone because they had already seized
my friend's phone for no reason, I simply tried to make them understand
that my phone is my private property but instead of hearing me out,
they resorted to physical assault. They hit me with all sort of objects
including their guns, I had to do my best to leave the scene for my dear
life. I was terribly injured over a phone that wasn't worth it at all, I
equally lost my wrist watch. The question is, what wrong have I done by
being a regular Nigerian young boy into entertainment. This police
brutality has finally got to me and the world must know, Police
brutality has to stop, its me today and it might be you tomorrow
#StopPoliceBrutality#IdemandJustice #NigeriaPoliceForce#policebrutality
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