A man simply identified as Daddy Geoffrey has accused some police officers in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital of extorting N80,000 from him after they allegedly planted a wrap of Indian hemp on him.
According to him, the incident happened on Sunday July 23 when the policemen were conducting a stop-and-search at Obiri-Ikwerre junction (just before entering Ozouba community) in Port Harcourt.
Mr Godffrey in the post said he was on his way to a friend’s party on Sunday night when he was stopped by the police officers at the junction.
He said the policemen searched him and found nothing, but instead of letting him go, one of them on insisted that he was a ” Yahoo boy” despite explaining to the officer about what he does for a living.
Mr Godffrey said he also showed the officers his ID card, but they insisted he was lying and they made him to go sit at the Petrol station close to their checkpoint and after discussing among themselves, the Policemen asked him to come for a second search.
Mr Godffrey stated that because he felt had not broken the any known law, he submitted himself confidently for another search.
“The next thing was that they brought out a parcel of weed (he didn’t know where it came from but he was confident it wasn’t from his bag )cause they already searched the first time,”
He stated that he insisted that it wasn’t his, but the policemen started slapping him. He added that he was physically assaulted by the one of the officers and he was immediately handcuffed.
He explained that he felt so helpless because he was alone and they made him to pay off his driver who left the scene.
Mr Godffrey maintained that he doesn’t smoke weed (Indian Hemp).
“I’ve never held a blunt in my life, I don’t even have friends that come to smoke at my place so why would I be carrying weed about? After everything, they said I was going to their Police station and would later hand me over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
He further said that “After about two hours in handcuff inside their van, they finally agreed for me to pay them 100k, but I ended up paying 80k cause that was the only money I could access at that point” he said.
Mr Godffrey said they forced him call his Accountant so he could send the balance, but the accountant wasn’t online at that time.
Mr Godffrey who called for refund of his hard earned money and justice for the abuse of his rights and privileges to free movements insisted that he was ready for drug tests to prove he is not an Indian hemp smoker.
He lamented that in addition to the indignities meted out to him, his hard earned N80,000 was extorted from him for an offence he is sure he did not commit.
He said make money by honest living through Public Relations practice and operation of a short-let agency, a small properties business and hosting of Events.
In his response Geoffrey’s complaint, Nigeria Police Force Spokesman, Prince Adejobi Olumuyiwa, said: “We will ask the Rivers State command to take it up, while I follow up. Good narration, but we will need to hear from the men, too, since none of us here was at the scene. But I can assure you we will critically and professionally look into it, and ensure justice. Get me on my line, send sms to me”.
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