Lagos artistes accuse police of extortion, sexual harassment

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Two Lagos-based artistes, David Marvellous and Damilola Oladimeji, have accused some personnel of the Lagos State Police Command of alleged extortion and sexual harassment.

learnt that the artistes were returning home on July 28, 2020, after buying food when policemen from the Langbasa Police Station allegedly accosted them on their estate at Badore, in the Ajah area of the state.

Marvellous, who alleged that one of the policemen sexually harassed him, stated that the cop also slapped him on the face when he queried his action.Marvellous said, “My friend and I went out to buy food around 10.30pm. On our way back, we were accosted by strange armed men in a van. They were in mufti and had guns. Because we had never seen or experienced anything like that before on the estate, the first thing that came to our mind was to run.

“The policemen questioned us. But when we tried to respond, we received severe beatings. It was almost like each time we said a word, it was followed with hot blows and slaps, so we kept mute. They went on to raid a hotel on the estate and arrested almost everyone in it, including the manager. The team leader, Sunday, kept smiling and saying he had discovered a new spot to raid.

“One of the male officers molested me sexually while searching my body. He touched my private parts and when I challenged him, he slapped me twice on the face. We were taken to the office of the team leader in the morning and we were given our phones to call our families to come and bail us. My friend called his manager, who bailed us out with N5,000 each.

 

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