Nigerian Police Locate, Probe Officers Caught On Camera Doing Illegal ‘Stop-And-Search’ Without Uniforms, IDs In Lagos

Nigerian Police Locate, Probe Officers Caught On Camera Doing Illegal ‘Stop-And-Search’ Without Uniforms, IDs In Lagos

The Nigeria Police Force has said the identities of some officers who stopped a motorist in Lagos to demand his tinted permit without their ID cards and uniforms have been known.

In a viral video seen by SaharaReporters on X, a group of policemen in mufti stopped a Lagos resident and asked him to provide the permit he had for the tainted windows of his car.

But the car owner asked the police officers to show him their means of identification before he would come down from his car as instructed.

He also tackled the police officer for operating with their uniform and an unregistered vehicle amid several cases of kidnapping taking place in the country.

“I can’t remember the last time the police is asking for tinted permit because that had been cancelled two years ago,” the car owner queried the policemen in the video

He continued: “I am not even sure you are police officers; let me see your ID cards, please. Can you present your ID cards? Them dey kidnap up and down, I no fit make una enter. If you no bring am (your ID cards) come outside, I will not come outside. I will be sure say you are police officer. See how you are dressed and you are stopping me when kidnapping full everywhere.

“You are the one that is rude to me, you stopped me with an unregistered motor. You are not on uniform when kidnapping dey happen. Which kind of thing be that?”

Reacting to the viral video on his X handle, the spokesperson for the Force, Mr Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the erring officers had been traced to Zone 2, Lagos State Police Command.

He added that the authorities had begun a probe into the matter.

“These policemen have been traced to zone 2 and identified. The AIG zone 2 Lagos is investigating. While the PPRO zone 2, Lagos will speak to it as soon as possible,” he said.