VIDEO: Many Days For The Thief, One Day For The Owner Speaker Catches Policemen Extorting Money From Youths, Orders Immediate Refund
Adewale Egbedun, the Osun State House of Assembly Speaker, has caught some personnel of the Nigeria Police Force extorting money from youths in the state.
This was seen by Ibom Focus in a video posted by a Twitter user, Alákòwé on Friday morning, capturing the moment the police officers tried to hide their faces when the Speaker and his companions approached them for an immediate refund of the extorted money to the youths.
Many days for the thief, one day for the owner. See as shame dey catch them, Ire o
In the video, a voice is heard accusing the policemen of always stopping youths on the highway and asking them to transfer money before they would be allowed to go. He said. “They stop the youth in Osun and collect money from the youth. They make transfers to the police and Mr Speaker is collecting back the money right away with immediate effect.”
The Speaker appears visibly angry at the situation in the video. He described the action of the policemen as inappropriate and asked people in his entourage to keep videoing the policemen. “What kind of rubbish is that, do their video,” the Speaker said. The Rule of Law and Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) stated in June that despite the provisions of the Police Act to safeguard human rights, allegations of police brutality in Nigeria had not decreased. The 2020 #EndSARS revolt, according to RULAAC, was the pinnacle of demonstrations against such violence, adding that both the Police Act 2020 and the Police Trust Fund Act 2019 must be understood for efficient implementation.
The RULAAC executive director, Okechukwu Nwanguma, stated this in his public presentation and validation of the concise summaries of the Police Act and the Police Trust Fund Act in Abuja. He explained that the new Police Act has the objective of providing for a police force that is more responsive to the needs of the public and has its operations entrenched in the values of fairness, justice and partnering with the communities it serves and also to uphold the fundamental rights of citizens.
