GiftedHands_OFR, a user on X (formerly Twitter), has recounted how officers of the Special Tactical Team from the Ijegun Police Station unjustly arrested two of his friends and a dispatch rider at a restaurant located at the Iyana-School bus stop on Saturday.

In a post on Sunday, the X user said that one of the detained individuals was serving a customer in the restaurant, another was a patron and the dispatch rider, innocently listening to music with earphones, awaited his next delivery order beside the establishment.

Upon the arrival of the police, the individuals playing pool behind the restaurant hastily dispersed for reasons unknown, but rather than addressing the reason they showed up for, the officers arrested the customer and the dispatch rider.

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“As they were about whisking them away, one of my friends protested against the police taking them away, and he was taken with them. We couldn’t reach them for hours, and we visited every police station in the vicinity only for them to later pick up our calls around 9:00 pm to tell us that they were at the Ijegun Police Station,” the GiftedHands_OFR tweet reads in part.

After GiftedHands_OFR had communicated with his detained friends, he and some concerned friends rushed to the Ijegun Police Station, where they confirmed the arrest of two of their friends.

“Apparently, there’s a bin right behind the snooker board behind our shop, and they found a bottle of expectorant there. And since my friends happened to be in the vicinity, they automatically became scapegoats!” He exclaimed.

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“All efforts to plead with these people proved abortive, as one of them even threatened to shoot us if we did not leave the corridor! We stepped outside and kept pleading, but these swines kept feeling like God.”

“When they later spoke to us, they asked us to get N2,000,000 for bail! These kidnappers disguised as officers opened their mouths to ask for such a ridiculous amount of money from innocent people. One even said, ‘We know that they are innocent, but when the criminals suffer, the innocent partake in their sufferings.’”

GiftedHands_OFR said that one of the officers blurted out that they would showcase the severity of punishment for the guilty by how they tortured the innocent.

When FIJ called Benjamin Hundeyin, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), he asked this reporter to inform the source to contact the Lagos State Police Command Complaint Response Unit.