A user on Twitter – @Mr_Svengali had quite a nasty night yesterday with the Nigerian Police when he and three of his friends were picked up by the Policemen from the Ojuelegba Police Command For “Eating out at night”.
According to him, it was a little past 10PM when they were picked up and they were detained for 24 hours with no charges or information on why they were being detained.
His tweets have caused quite a reaction on Nigerian Twitter with several people calling out the injustice of the Nigerian police.
See his tweets below:
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730200909326757888
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730201052834861056
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730201458415669248
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730201650149855232
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730201949098942464
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730202231048376321
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730202481284812800
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730203600736161792
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730203876255797252
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730204123086336000
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730204407762178049
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730204654009716736
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730205411245166592
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730206002239422464
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730206380234264576
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730206761609728000
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730317998553223168
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730318441257836544
https://twitter.com/Mr_Svengali/status/730368413118435328
Apparently, he and his friends have been released.
See the response of the Officer in Charge of the Complaint Response Unit (CRU), Abayomi Shogunle, after several other Twitter users called his attention to the case:
.@Mr_Svengali #CRU359117
Good morning, are you still at Ojuelegba @PoliceNG Station?@PoliceNG_CRU https://t.co/WpHn2tlihg#NPFcomplaint— CP Abayomi Shogunle, Ph.D., 𝘧𝘴𝘪 (@YomiShogunle) May 11, 2016
As I Tweet, @PoliceNG_CRU Special Monitoring Team from FHQ on nationwide patrol is at Ojuelegba PS to verify Mr_Svengali report #CRU359117
— CP Abayomi Shogunle, Ph.D., 𝘧𝘴𝘪 (@YomiShogunle) May 11, 2016
