tokrizy:
i Jst wish d stupid police have phones to see this news..they won't stp searching

tokrizy:
i Jst wish d stupid police have phones to see this news..they won't stp searching

ch3ckm8:
They haven't been "commissioned"

cashlurd:
Virtually everytime I enter Lagos, the Nigeria Police on uniforms and moftis in yellow buses do stop and search me and go ahead to forcefully search through my phone messengers, gallery, whatsapp, email and even facebook. It's a huge harassment. But what can man do? If you counter them, they could shoot u and you would be just one of those Nairaland stories about "man shoot by trigger happy policeman" and in two days, your news would be stale.

So I always let them do whatever they want. Last time, after searching me and the Uber driver along Festac town, they left me and took the uber driver to their station simply because they saw his chat with a foreign number on his phone discussing how to import a car.

Tired of Nigeria I swear!!!

Dollyak:
Police shouldn't be able to search your phone without a warrant from the court as is the case with most countries. This is just an abuse of power.

clive2u:
Get the guns from them and give them baton, thats what make them feel they're above the law. Afterall they dont use it on arm robbers but innocent civilians. Police especially those low ranked illiterate dont need guns

tokrizy:
i Jst wish d stupid police have phones to see this news..they won't stp searching

xreal:
"Officers have been lectured"

Which officers? You only lecture the already lectured educated officers who are not seen on the streets.

Why not lecture the 50naira officers on the road?
Why not lecture the trigger-happy, dirty-looking, illiterate SARS?


Make I no transmission my anger here.

Daboomb:


very true!

they prolly drop the gun and runaway, once an armed robbery is ongoing.

Only "special squads" should carry guns and those should not having anything to do with day-2-day normal squabbles - Just armed squads to respond to armed conflicts like robberies.

Daboomb:


I think l am just very unlucky because l always pray that l should encounter one of these 'stop & search' my phone SARS team but so far, l have never been lucky!

My phones (One HTC, One Samsung and one old Iphone) are all passworded and they contain very, very sensitive information, including bank pincodes, passwords, e.t.c.

Infact, my phones are hte most important items l have and l guard them seriously.
I want to see how that SARS officer will force me to enter my Pin codes, to unlock the phone, by force, without a valid warrant.
And he can be sure that he will see a lot of foreign calls on it as my phones are not just for making audio calls but are my own business tool.

I guess they do a sort of 'profiling', based on your appearance or how you speak to them, to decide who to search.

Maybe l will be lucky one day sha.

Akanapiaigwe:
Buhari is a criminal

Daboomb:


I think l am just very unlucky because l always pray that l should encounter one of these 'stop & search' my phone SARS team but so far, l have never been lucky!

My phones (One HTC, One Samsung and one old Iphone) are all passworded and they contain very, very sensitive information, including bank pincodes, passwords, e.t.c.

Infact, my phones are hte most important items l have and l guard them seriously.

I want to see how that SARS officer will force me to enter my Pin codes, to unlock the phone, by force, without a valid warrant.

And he can be sure that he will see a lot of foreign calls on it as my phones are not just for making audio calls but are my own business tool.

I guess they do a sort of 'profiling', based on your appearance or how you speak to them, to decide who to search.

Maybe l will be lucky one day sha.