There is a certain prayer my mom use to pray for me in Yoruba language, she always pray that Ki a ma rarin fose si, I never understand this pray until I grew up. When I begin to read about a story of many Nigerians that were wrongly arrested for the crime they know nothing about.

Some year years ago, I read about a story of upcoming Musician, John Edward was a victim of wrongful imprisonment. He was jailed for murder, a crime he knew nothing about according to the punch.

“On June 1, 2016, I was returning from a hip-hop video shoot and had my costumes tucked in my bag. On my way home, I ran into some policemen conducting a stop-and-search operation. They stopped me. I was searched; they found nothing on me but they ordered me to follow them to their station. I obeyed their order without questioning.

“When we got there, I called my producer and my sister; this was in Makurdi, Benue State. When my producer came, he showed them my video and on the second day, I was bailed with a sum of N20, 000. As of then, the Investigating Police Officer was not around and I left for the Air Force Base with my sister without my phone, a Blackberry Z30.

“On the following Monday, I returned to the station to pick up my phone and met with the IPO. I told the IPO that I wanted to collect my phone. He asked me to sit down and I was there for about four hours. In my presence, he wrote a report and later brought out of a file pictures of someone that was butchered. He then asked for my full name, which I told him without knowing what was going on. Before I knew it, he brought out handcuffs and two cellmates and he labelled me as the “ring leader”.

Another one was Clinton Kalu , a native of Imo State, regained freedom from the Port Harcourt Maximum Prison in 2019. The 56-year-old consultant criminologist had spent 27 years on death row before the Supreme Court set aside his conviction, quashed the spurious murder charges against him and handed him his freedom. Today, he wears a smile that bellies his pains and loses.

I also read about story of Mr. Femi Ariyo , a Lagos-based transporter onFebruary 28, 2018 who received a phone call from the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad department of the Nigeria Police Force.

That unexpected phone call would mark, for him, the beginning of a journey to Kirikiri Maximum Prison, which lasted over four harrowing years.

Ariyo, who was married and had children, would lose his wife, who left and abandoned his children. Yet, he never committed the crime he was accused of and for which he was made to go through all that trouble.

AchrafHakimi:
Is it by Police or Holy Spirit?
Be specific.

Jennyclay:
share the story Why were you arrested

Are you a rapist or a murderer or a serial thief That you can’t share your story

yazzman:
My wife insulted me by telling me that ...me that my parent abandoned ... one thing I hate the most is using my childhood experience to mock me ....I had to slap her and before you know she got me arrested...

Well a certain Helinues if out now maybe op should ask him 😁

Risingblue008:
because of weed ooo
Just becos of weed

I no gree bail myself
Dem tire for me na
I begged dem with 4k dem no gree
For their front
I used the money cure jonzing den lock-up.
I was there for almost 5days
Nobody tell dpo to free me b4 he did dt

Didi2d:
I have shared this story here before. Lol...

One Saturday morning, just after environmental sanitisation.
I and a friend met on the way as both of us are going to watch a football game between my area ketu and ayetoro in ijanikin.

Just as we got to the then ayetoro field, I noticed a woman pointed at me and my friend. Before we could take further step, I heard a shout! Hey, both of you come here!

As we approach the woman and some few people standing, omo! This woman started shouting o, na dem na dem. Na so I confused.

To cut the long story short, we were almost linched, but God kept us till police came

Na so I take spend weekend for police cell o, and my family was busy looking for me, till someone told them about some guys that was arrested on Saturday.
Lol .. funny and bad experience

Olalan:
I went to play playstation in a game house....... not a funny scenario.

The guys took us into their bus and collected money from the shop owner, before they let us go.

Since then I dread going to play games or even watch matches outside

Didi2d:
I have shared this story here before. Lol...

One Saturday morning, just after environmental sanitisation.
I and a friend met on the way as both of us are going to watch a football game between my area ketu and ayetoro in ijanikin.

Just as we got to the then ayetoro field, I noticed a woman pointed at me and my friend. Before we could take further step, I heard a shout! Hey, both of you come here!

As we approach the woman and some few people standing, omo! This woman started shouting o, na dem na dem. Na so I confused.

To cut the long story short, we were almost linched, but God kept us till police came

Na so I take spend weekend for police cell o, and my family was busy looking for me, till someone told them about some guys that was arrested on Saturday.
Lol .. funny and bad experience

yazzman:
My wife insulted me by telling me that ...me that my parent abandoned ... one thing I hate the most is using my childhood experience to mock me ....I had to slap her and before you know she got me arrested...

faceland:
My first arrest was at age 28 (by bribe seeking police) and since then I have lost count.

I am not a criminal but bad-cop, 1 or 2 mistakes and social problems. Infact, if am sleeping and police car part in front of my house, I will not panic because am not a criminal.

In addition to arrest, I have enter cell 3 times (Edo, Delta & Bauchi). All I entered with my cloths fully dress but in Delta I regret it because it was my favorite cloth and I had to throw it away, I couldn't wash the smell off the cloth (it was an egotistical professor that did that arrest).

TrustNone:
I went out with a nairalander to work as she has been telling me she's broke so I told her to accompany me to a job my friend called me to do for him.
Do you know this nairalander stole a very costly equipment and disappeared putting me in trouble.
I was asked to produce her, I was then arrested.
Since then I've not seen her again though she's a regular member of this forum.
Below is her link to her profile
https://www.nairaland.com/DKM123