Nigerian Man calls out SARS Officers offering him a refund to stay silent after Extortion

A Nigerian man took to Facebook to call out SARS officers in Port-Harcourt who are now offering him a refund to stay silent after extortion.

According to Benjiszzy Záakìi Omale, he accosted by the SARS officers and his only offence was that he was carrying a laptop.

He further revealed that these SARS officers who detained him till evening at their station also deleted the debit alert notification from his phone.

Read his post below;

Just in case you saw me behind a police van yesterday, I did nothing. According to them, “You are carrying laptop”. That was my offense. They threatened that gays will rape me in the cell and I’ll be tortured if I don’t pay a sum of 50,000. Oya, officer, if the receipt is the issue, please Let me call someone to bring it from home. They said only way I can go home is if I’ve paid 50k.

We waited for alert from my bank till 10:58PM, they said if they don’t get the money they would never let me go. Since the alert didn’t come, my friends had to come with cash of 30k & then I transferred 16k to the officer before they let me go by past 11PM. Then again, my offense is “Carrying laptop”. Laptop that I’ve been moving around with since 2009.

They made sure I deleted the alert from the money I sent them so I won’t have any evidence in case I would want to implicate them. Even if you say I stole my laptop, why not confiscate it till I provide a proof of ownership, rather than arrest me & request 50K as bail? I was embarrassed, accused wrongly, exploited, and denied my rights for no just cause.

Only with my ears have I heard about the brutality, unruly behavior & unprofessionalism of the SARS. I just had my own encounter. A refund of the money forcefully and illegally extorted from me for my silence? Haa! Oga Olopa no naah. Una just jam rock! Rubbish