My Experience With Naija Police part 4
We all submitted the statement to the older police officer who read them one after the other, I knew it was mine he was reading when what was written on his face was a conundrum, let them try to twist that. After the reading which took minutes to complete he finally looked up, “una two fit go, but you and you go sleep cell today” he pointed at me and KFC, we were clean, quite unfortunate for Sensation and Biggs, Sensation was held back for having those assignments while Biggs was held back for the OLX.com issue. The men were quite serious as they handcuffed the both of them, by which time the crooked nose officer had arrived, we were too surprised to even beg, they were marching them off to an old building when the older police officer halted them and asked them to return, “look, I like una, and I no want make una sleep cell, because anything wey go make una enter that cell una own don finish be dat, so make una arrange something for us” he said, I knew that has been their objective all along, a bribe!
“Sir, I understand, how much sir” Biggs responded, “N100,000 each” he replied,
see this thief, he wantes to wriggle out his 3 months salary from someone’s hand, “arrrgh, sir, we are students o!” Biggs was alarmed, we all were, “instead make u dey thank me, u dey shout, normally na N350000 per person”, “sir, just take us to the cell, there’s no need”, biggs replied, that angered the officer, bad market.
He tried to beat the price down but Biggs would not accept, he was adamant, why was he so keen to sleep in a cell. Since they were not
willing to change their mind, they marched them off towards the cell building, they had barely gotten far when they heard a gunshot, it was shot by a police officer into the air, we were all frightened and turned to see who was coming, the person must have been very important bceuase everyone saluted him, he even had an entourage, the man who shot into the air was part of them, they were walking towards the office we had just left, immediately after they passed us, the police officers holding us also marched us towards the office, apparently another high ranking officer had gotten involved, now these boys are done for good! We entered the office, the man the entourage were following was already seated, he had this calm and likeable mannerism, his face was expressionless, silent killers. All the police officers were still saluting and I wondered what we were supposed to do, probably salute with them? I guess not, “what did these boys do” the man asked absent minded, a deep barritone voice,
“sir they are yahoo boys sir” the older policeman answered, he was at ease now,
“I see, that’s nice, if there is one thing we would like it curb it is the rate of fraudstars, curbing their fraudulent act, good work officers. Now what proof do you have of your assertion?” The man asked cooly,
“this one sir have a yahoo site called OLX.com on his handset” the older officer replied grinning like a hunt who had just caught the biggest game in his hunting career, the entourage busted into a hearty laughter,
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“ OLX.com? How is that a yahoo site,
thought it was a trading site, what about this one?” the man questioned, pointing at Sensation,
“the other one have assignments of lecturer sir, he is involving in malpractice” the older policeman said, humiliated by the laughter,
“that is indeed malpractice!” He replied in a sardonic tone, ” but isn’t that because he is the class representative for his level, is it not, Sensation?
” How did this man know Sensation’s name, I got the answer immediately,
“Yes dad, I’m the class rep, and as a class rep I’m the intermediary between the lecturers and the students” sensation replied,
oh! How could I have forgotten! Sensation’s dad is the commissioner of police for that state, that explains why he has been quiet all along, he knew he had immunity, I wondered how the man knew of this whole event though, but I didn’t care, I was enjoying myself now,
“so you arrested these young men because one of them understands and uses OLX.com and the other has the assignments for his department, I see, the very height of crime. Tell me son, did they try to extort you? How much did they ask you to bring.”,
“N100,000 each sir” I quickly replied him, he smiled
“So, officers, not only were you arresting these men unlawfully, you wanted to indulge in corruption, isn’t that the one thing you’ve sworn to fight? Even the ones trying to fight off corruption are the very perpetrators, how preposterous! Go home kids, I’d handle it from here” the man replied, Biggs and Sensation were immediately unhandcuffed, we were grinning from ear to ear. As we walked towards the gate we could hear the four officers crying and pleading, this was turning out to be a good day, still I wanted to know how his dad got to know,
“wait o, how ur papa take know sef?”I asked,
“immediately they started with the whole searching thing, I quickly texted my father, I nor fit for police wahala abeg” sensation replied, I suddenly felt this love for Sensation,
“Sensation. I feel like kissing you now” I said excitedly, I was happy,
“No wahala na. Kiss me in front of the station, then they’d have a very good reason to nab us, our 14 years honeymoon would be epic” he replied, we all laughed as we stepped out the gate, this was a good day.
*****THE END*****
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