A female social media influencer resident in Enugu has narrated how some police officers stationed at the Mile 2 junction in Lagos harassed her and her younger brother.

The influencer, who asked not to be named, told FIJ that the incident happened on February 7 just after the Mile 2 bus stop in Lagos.

According to the influencer, who is also a law student at the Nigerian Law School in Enugu, she and her younger brother were in a cab heading to Badagry when some police officers asked their driver to park at a spot.

She said she sensed the officers profiled her because she had a headset on, and thus shouted at her driver to park at a spot.

The influencer said that immediately after their driver parked, a police officer in mufti opened a right-side door and started searching her brother.

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“The officer showed us an ID card with unclear inscriptions and immediately started searching my brother’s pockets,” she told FIJ.

“I tried to show the officer who searched my brother my Nigerian Law School registration slip, but he wasn’t willing to check mine. This was after he searched my brother thoroughly.”

The influencer said the police reached for her handbag and perused through it. She said the officer also checked a nylon bag that contained her belongings, such as a toothbrush and cereal.

“I told him he could not search my very belongings because I did not think they should be a part of his search, but he said I could not teach him how to go about his job,” she said.

“I told him he was wrong, but he said I was not supposed to talk back at a police officer and that even if I wanted to, these were not the sort of officers I should talk to.

“After searching my brother’s bag, they forced me into opening my box, which contained my undies and my laptop.”

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She said the search was so intense that she had to delete her WhatsApp account because, as an influencer, she was used to using the word ‘client’ when dealing with people.

She also said she suspected the officers wanted to plant something incriminating on her due to how they searched her and her brother.

“I saw the officers passing things to one another to put in my box, but they were unsuccessful. This was what they did to the owner of the car they stopped after ours. He found nothing and couldn’t put any implicating substance in my bag,” she said.

“They were all with guns. They were so intimidating. The officers were angry when I confronted them. I felt so violated when the officers checked my pants and scattered my bag, despite telling them nothing was in it. I couldn’t do anything because it was at gunpoint.”

FIJ contacted Benjamin Hundeyin, the Lagos State police spokesperson, but he did not answer his call. At press time, he had not responded to the text sent to him.