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On that fateful Saturday, the had an appointment fixed for 10am but he left home early and decided to do some rounds and see what his men were doing at the checkpoints.


He was in mufti, and alone. Then, men from the Panti Police Station decided to stop him at a checkpoint.

Here's the story as he first told Vanguard in January 2012. He later told some of us (Police Correspondents) again after he had become an IGP.

“As Commissioner of Police Lagos State command then, every Saturday I usually get to the office by 10: am. And on that particular day, I had an official appointment with somebody for 10:am. But I woke up by 6am and decided to get to the office earlier and as I drove in my jeep, I decided to come in through Herbert Macaulay, to check the policemen on duty, to find out whether they were doing their job properly or not.

”That has always been my style, as I personally visited every division as well as Police posts under my jurisdiction, in order to have a first hand assessment of their job. But as I got to the check point, the policemen on duty stopped me and asked me to park, which I obediently did.

“The Constable who stopped me came closer and I said Constable how now?

“He replied by saying 'good morning young man, where are you going in your father’s Jeep?' He asked for the car particulars and later asked for my name? “I told him my name is Mohammed. He said I should identify myself; that I should justify that I am indeed Mohammed by giving him my identity card.

“At that point, I played along and asked him to show me his own identity card first before I would show him mine because I knew he might not have. After some exchanges, he later crossed to the other side and called their team leader who was a Sergeant.

“When the Sergeant came, he insisted that I should show him my identity card. But I insisted that he should show me his as a sergeant. As the argument lasted, he called some of his men to take me to the station since I wasn’t forthcoming.

“In fact, they said I was speaking grammar. I asked them where the station was and they said it was at Yaba (Panti) and I obediently followed them. Arriving at the station, there was no parking space except for that of the Divisional Police Officer. I parked my car in the DPO’s space and when the constable saw me, he screamed and said I should not park there.

“As we were going inside the station, he stopped on realizing that he was in front while I was behind.

“He said he arrested me and as such I should be in front of him. At the veranda, we ed by an old man who told the constable that he hoped he had not gone to bring wahala for them. When we got inside, I met an Assistant Superintendent of Police ASP and another man in mufti. The constable told the ASP that I was speaking grammar.

“The man in shorts said authoritatively that I should come in and I told him I won’t because he was not putting on his uniform to identify whether he was a policeman or not. At that point, the ASP pushed me inside and as he made to go, I drew him back and said he should give me my uniform. At that point, he took a closer look at me.

“Meanwhile, the old man tip-toed back and forth, went to the DPO’s office to check the photograph on the wall if indeed it was MD Abubakar they had just arrested. On realizing who I was, he tiptoed back and forth before jumping through the window. I was still standing there with the Sergeant who ordered that they should bring me to the station with his team.

”He wondered what I was still doing standing there. One of his colleagues , moved towards him and I overheard him whispering to the Sergeant that I was the . On hearing this he just went face down. The other officer who was in shorts jumped out through the window; he, too, disappeared. I believe the Area Commander heard about
the news as he later called me. When I asked where he was, he said himself, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the station and other people involved were already in the cell awaiting their punishment over the policemen’s misdemeanor.

“My anger was that just a week before that incident, I went to that same station and cautioned the men about their conduct. But at the end. I said they should be released.

"On Monday, over 100 families came to my office crying and begging. One of them, an elderly man, said one of the policemen involved was the only policeman from his village and that if l dismissed him that means there would not be any policeman from his village.

“I did not dismiss any of them in the end but I only used them to serve as deterrent to others. I felt if I should dismiss one policeman I would be dismissing 30 families, 30 families would be affected one way or the other. Because he has a father, a mother, siblings and other extended relatives depending on him.

Culled from Adeduntan Ibrahim Yinka's Page

Nice one...

Funniest Story have Read on Nairaland in a long While.

I'm glad he experienced this first hand... that is the calibre of illiterate and uncultured men we ha e in the police force.
Only few are reasonable!!!

🥷

Tales by the moon light.

Lolss,
Same with the Nollywood movie UNCLE WAYWARD by John Okafor.

DPO (Charles Inojie) went to arrest some 'OPC' Boys and when he got there,
He found out that the Commissioner of Police was a member.

He tried to arrest the until The commissioner told him his own OPC was Organization of Patriotic citizens.
And that he will deal with the DPO for the Embarrassment.

See how DPO was Crying ehn.

I am glad he experienced what these guys do to innocent citizens

So dpo dey enter cell...Well sounds like those chinese drama from dramabox that is usually adviced on IG /FACEBK.

Allsmilez999:
Police Constable look this your face call you “young man”?

Make una dey lie small small na!

It happened over 15 years ago

Solitechworld:


It happened over 15 years ago

My bad

I had read the story long ago from the newspaper it was published in initially and since then I had come to understand the psyche of the average policeman that stands on the road.

The smallest of soldiers by their training would have started to suspect something was wrong straight away with the confidence the man was using to answer them....our Police are extremely reckless risk takers.

The got a heaven-sent opportunity to improve the police force, and he squandered it.

He should have dismissed them.

Did he pause to think about what would have happened to him if he hadn't been the ?

I read this in vanguard newspaper back then. Very funny but true story.

He should have used them as scapegoat.. most of these men in uniform don't understand that they are privileged to be serving their country and should treat every citizen with respect.
It's only soldiers that have that Orientation and discipline.. I wonder what messed the NPF up.

...still didn't stop the rot in the police

Hehe 😅

“He said he arrested me and as such I should be in front of him. At the veranda, we ed by an old man who told the constable that he hoped he had not gone to bring wahala for them. When we got inside, I met an Assistant Superintendent of Police ASP and another man in mufti. The constable told the ASP that I was speaking grammar.

Powerful words by the intelligent old man nobody likes to SeeWahala

ruggedtimi:
So dpo dey enter cell...Well sounds like those chinese drama from dramabox that is usually adviced on IG /FACEBK.

Is better he enter cell himself, if the should call the DIG of that zone or the IGP himself, that DPO is in a big trouble. Is either they remove is rank or but I don't think they'll dismissed him. But the boys working under the DPO may be dismissed or rank deducted

AndroBlaze:
I had read the story long ago from the newspaper it was published in initially and since then I had come to understand the psyche of the average policeman that stands on the road.

The smallest of soldiers by their training would have started to suspect something was wrong straight away with the confidence the man was using to answer them....our Police are extremely reckless risk takers.

and that why many have been dismissed and lost their job. Most turn to beggars and arm robbers in the long run

lol

Only Sowore can stop Nigerians from this police embarrassment

dollypi:
The got a heaven-sent opportunity to improve the police force, and he squandered it.

He should have dismissed them.

Did he pause to think about what would have happened to him if he hadn't been the ?

You're the most sensible person on earth today.

Ladies and Gentlemen, there you have it! That's why Nigeria will remain chained and under developed; because for every recalcitrant and corrupt public official you see, "30 families" will be rendered hopeless if you try to make them able. God bless Nigeria.

dollypi:
The got a heaven-sent opportunity to improve the police force, and he squandered it.

He should have dismissed them.

Did he pause to think about what would have happened to him if he hadn't been the ?

He later became the IGP

Funny story

Smitaro100:
Tales by the moon light.

I when he was the commissioner of police of lagos back then, that should be around 2008 or thereabout, i can't . I never knew he would end up being the IGP of police.

By leaving them, more than 100 families will be affected. You should think about the ripple effect of not dismissing them.

RealLordZeus:

He later became the IGP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtG6Jfud1Do

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Culled from Adeduntan Ibrahim Yinka's Page

Should I laugh 😂 or laugh...
I am laugh 😂😂😂 ing

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