The police said an officer has been arrested and detained in connection with the alleged incident.
A passenger who travelled along a highway in Rivers State, South-south Nigeria, has narrated how some police officers allegedly harassed and extorted N40,000 from him and other passengers in a commercial vehicle.they have arrested and detained an officer in connection with the alleged incident.on Sunday that the encounter with the officers, made him tired and exhausted mentally “because this has been occurring”.
The victim said there were four male passengers inside the Sienna while the rest were female and that the car was stopped in the “middle of nowhere” by the officers who started searching WhatsApp and other apps in the phones belonging to the male passengers.The Nigeria police have repeatedly warned officers against random searches on citizens’ phones.
“We stood for over 1hr 30mins, I tried talking back, and they handcuffed me. I’m not a criminal. They said I’m a suspect, I kept asking ‘how?’ At that moment I was so angry.“The funny thing is that these so-called officers were counting the money they made from extortion in front of us. Please convince me how these guys ain’t criminals in uniform?”a photo of one of the officers which he said he took with his phone during the encounter.
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