Medical Doctor Cries Out Over Alleged Police N59k Extortion

A medical doctor, Ohis Ojeabuo, has cried out after some police officers in Lagos state allegedly extorted N59,000 from him and his colleagues for parking on the road.

In his post shared on X (formerly Twitter), Ohis said he and his colleagues were heading to work when they noticed a mechanical fault and decided to park immediately to check the problem.

He said the officers spotted them and allegedly asked that they pay the sum of N250,000 for parking on the road.

He said after challenging them and making them drive around, they were forced to part with N59,000.

According to him, “On my way to work this morning by 7 with my colleague(Medical doctors) @_Muyii, our cars engine light started blinking and we stopped immediately to check what was wrong.

“Police approached us, seized the keys and told us we had to pay 250k fine for a no parking sign, we tried Explaining why we had stopped but they took the keys, we sat in the back seat and they said we would be driving to alausa court 18. After much pleading as we explained to them we are medical doctors and were late to work they collected 59,000 from us @PoliceNG. Please help.

“Once again, Nigeria police never fails to disappoint. A parking ticket is probably not more than 10-20k, but this particular man despite explaining why we had stopped the car and this car was stopped for not up to 20seconds before they came rushing to us.

“We had stopped at shitta round about, Lagos just in front of where kekes load passengers going to costain. They took over the car and drove us all the way to gbagada heading to alausa before they stopped after Collecting the money and drove off @Princemoye1 @BenHundeyin @PoliceNG.”