A lady identified as Funmi has narrated how she was harassed and attacked by the operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Akure, Ondo State on Tuesday.
She stated that that they were stopped at a checkpoint and their bags and phones searched but she placed a call to an activist Yemi Fash who spoke with them and told them to release them but the officers refused.
The officers threatened to shoot her if she doesn’t delete the pictures she took of them.
Read her post below, “SAKS officers of the @PoliceNG harassed terribly me today on my way to Akure. They can be equated to kidnappers as they are always patrolling without uniforms and official vehicles.
They searched our bags and were already searching our phones. Before it got to me, I quickly placed a call to @YemieFASH who spoke with them. Upon knowing who he was, they got angry and started saying it’s because I know someone. I already took pictures of them before the call which made them angrier while they snatched the phone from me.
They said I was going to follow them to their station which I already agreed too as I was about sitting in their car. One told me to come down and started hitting me and pulling my arms to get my phone the second time. He corked his gun and threatened to shoot me while trying to force me back into the car.
He came close and tried hitting me with the gun on the head and was only stopped by another officer. Yemi’s call came in and he spoke to another officer who was lying against me right in my face, I had to be screaming “he’s lying” at the background He asked them if they’d let me go if I delete the pictures, they said yes so the officer held my phone while I deleted the pictures.
One of them was insisting they factory reset my phone and I told them it wasn’t possible while he was still dragging my phone with another officer The aggressive officer told me clearly that I was lucky to have called Yemi and it was day time else he’d shoot me there or drive me to an unknown location and shoot me.
Those men are horrible, I was hit, dragged and pulled by the arm, if they could do and say those to a lady, then I can’t even imagine what a man would go through. It seems like it’s only on Twitter that there’s rule of NO PHONE search. Unfortunately, data network was poor there else the pictures would have automatically backuped to Google photos and I could only retain the back view of the most aggressive officer.
@PoliceNG, your men across to country should be called to order sternly, they are too aggressive and trigger happy. It’s just too insane to hear/behold. I watched as other citizens were harrassed too.
I’m still hurt in my left arm and having headache.
