The student narrated that the police officers stopped his and accused him of being a ‘Yahoo-Boy’ despite no incriminating evidence was found in his custody.
A Nigerian student and Twitter user, Younggreezy, has narrated how he was ill-profiled as a fraudster by the officers of the Nigeria Police Force on his way back to school on Saturday along Owo/Ifon-Benin road in Ondo State.
The student narrated that the police officers stopped his and accused him of being a ‘Yahoo-Boy’ despite no incriminating evidence was found in his custody.
He said, “Good evening everyone please I need your help these men can’t go scot free I was on my way from Akure to Benin where I enter park to go back to school along Owo road 15-20mins into Benin this officers stopped me asked what was in my bag and I told them my
Good evening everyone please I need your help these men can’t go scot free I was on my way from akure to Benin where I enter park to go back to school along owo road 15-20mins into Benin this officers stopped me asked what was in my bag and I told them my pic.twitter.com/l5J7YPOTYV
— young_reezy_official (@youngreezyszn) January 20, 2023
“My cloths; they searched my bags and found nothing they said I was a yahoo boy; so to clear the air I gave them my phone they searched and found nothing before I could say anything the driver that took me brought my load outside dropped it in the police van and zoomed off in the middle of now where with four armed police; they took me and my friend inside bush after I had showed them my ID card as student and even my kofa page they told me if I didn’t cooperate they would kill me inside this bush and dump my dead body.”
He added that the officers hit him with guns and assaulted him.
He continued: “I was so scared for my life; they hit me with gun on my head; slapped me and they took N30,000 they saw in my account immediately they brought us out of bush as we agreed to cooperate; they brought us to a POS stand they took us to transfer all my money; they left me and my friend stranded; we had to beg to go back to school; I was so scared of my life; this country has failed me as a student.”
Meanwhile, all attempts to obtain a response from Ondo State Police Spokesperson, Adeoye Akeem Adeola, on the report were unsuccessful.
He did not respond to several phone calls and text messages seeking his response to Younggreezy's claims.