THE STORY BELOW IS COPIED. IT IS ABOUT THE DANGEROUS ENCOUNTER OF A DOCTOR ON EMERGENCY DUTY AT NIGHT WITH THE NIGERIAN POLICE,BE CAREFUL WITH ANYONE BEARING ARMS.
People, please appreciate God for me! Its a long piece though,be patient wit me pls.
I had forgotten what the term 'faced with death really meant until early hours of this morning(21/12/16). I work with the state HMB. Yesterday I admitted a patient at the government hospital who had epistaxis during my clinic hours and i handed him over to the senior medical officer on call for observation. I had packed the bleeding nostrils with adrenalin impregnated gauze and the bleeding stopped. At about 12am the medical officer on call called to say that he was checking on the patient and decided to remove the gauze to examine patient and that was it! Patient just started bleeding profusely and within minutes had lost over 2 liters and was gasping for breath, PR: was 120bpm,RR: was 30cpm. Normal saline was used,No oxygen in general hospital,no blood to transfuse because the lab was closed. I was called at about 2am to come along with an oxygen cylinder and two blood bags since Orh negative blood donors were unavailable. Up from the bed I got, pleaded with my hubby to please let me go save a life(little did I know dat a great danger was ahead) driving down to my private practice with my double traffic light on. I met a police check point, I was flashed to a halt and the following conversation ensued;
police: madam where u dey go this kin time.
me:I be doctor I get emergency for hospital. Police: ( now upset ) emergency! Emergency! Na so so emergency doctors dey talk, na emergency we wan chop?
me: oga police I beg the patient dey die and time they go.
Police: stay there, u never ready to move, me I no get bed to sleep? I go kon dey here for nothing?
Me: (furious, as time was ticking away) na me give u work? Dey no dey pay u? Police: (looking through my car window piercingly as if searching for something) aha,wetin that knife they do there? (A pen knife I used to slice some oranges earlier in the day) OK! I Don catch u, u go explain this knife and this movement for this un holy hour. Kraa! he cocked his gun and pointed straight at me , come down! I say come down he yelled!
Me: (now praying silently in tongues as i saw he was dead serious) oga u want shoot me? For what now? I be armed robber?
Police: if I kill u now throw away who go find u?
me: (my heart beat racing.) oga police u wan shoot me? U can't kill me, God forbid,I can die like a chicken. Police: u Don die already, emergency my foot, in ur next life wen u see police u go respect,now shot into air twice then pointed the gun at me, (at this point another car came by,while the police was talking wit the driver, my phone rang, it was the doctor calling haven waited for too long) as fast as my fingers could move I picked the call and thank heavens it mysteriously entered in to hands free mode,before the doctor could speak, quickly and faster than a football commentator, i began ' I'm at so and so place, the police here wants to kill me because I didn't give them money, and went on and on I actually wanted the police man to know that I've informed someone about the incidence before he kills me. He lets the other car quickly go and turning to me, opens my door and forcefully pulls me out of the car, drags me to the back of their police van and up into the vehicle (at this point I realized there were four other police officers at the scene.) Off they drove.
Me: where are u taking me to? (There was dead silence) meanwhile I noticed a vehicle come out from a corner and followed us from a distance (i realized it was the car that earlier came by while we were at the check point)
police: (as soon as they realized the car was monitoring us...) Driver stop! ( talking to the police van driver) they alighted and flashed the vehicle down as he got close. they ordered him out of his car,
police: na u wan give evidence of waiting u no see abi? one police shouted fire him, then I mustard courage and spoke : sir don't even bother to shoot, u heard me make a call, I've told them that u threatened to kill me for refusing u bribe, so u can't cover up what is already exposed. That realisation got them thinking and the next thing they started beating up the officer that has bin with me for allowing me make calls,calling him names. At this point the order driver turned and drove off, they chased him ,getting to the check point where i met them before ,surprisingly my car wasn't there! (I left the car key on the ignition before they took me away). probably an opportunist has decided to take advantage of the situation and stole the car. This made them have a rethink,Who must have taken this car away?are we been trailed? That was how I was released and I found my way back home. The following morning I was told that my patient gave up, I have lodged a report at the police station with the commissioner of police. My car is no where to be found
The lesson;If u meet a Nigerian police officer in a lonely place please, please ,they are more dangerous than armed robbers. Were it not for Gods intervention I really do not know what would have become of me by now.
Please pass this message on,untill it gets to the right authorities for proper attention.

#ExposePoliceRotNow#PurgePoliceForce#

Hmmmmmm

u should av said public epistle not alert pls.