Babajide Muyiwa, a Lagos-based sports broadcaster, has accused officials of the Lagos State Task Force of extorting N100,000 from him on Monday.

Muyiwa, in a thread of tweets via his Twitter page @BabajideGuerero on Tuesday evening, said the officials framed him for a traffic offence and dragged him to their office.

He identified one of them as “Adeyemi, leader of the Team C Lagos Task Force”, who ordered him to reverse on Edmund Street in Yaba and filmed him doing so.

This tape, according to Muyiwa, was used as an exhibit in the traffic violation case.

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His tweets, directed at Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesman for the Lagos State Police, read:

@BenHundeyin @LagosPoliceNG I know you won’t reply to this , but when it’s time to get the petty thieves , your keypad will work . .you may be doing a great job in some quarters but YOUR men, Alot them belong to a psychiatric home, I mean this with EVERY DISRESPECT you feel

Yesteday the 19th, Dec I was on my way to shoot the last episode of @PulseSportsNG world cup show that I was commissioned to do, I was on MY lane, approaching the EDMUND STREET Turning into uni rd at Jibowu, when a suzuki cab overtook me and few minutes later you colleagues from the@LagosGovt lagos task force came off 2 yellow buses, and arrested that suzuki cab and some other cars they claimed it was “Double lane”, I WAS ON My right lane ,a dirty looking colleague of yours told Me “oga reverse , let us arrest these guys ” while I was reversing,

this YOUR guy whom your institution has immensely empowered with grand madne*s recorded me reversing , and told his fellow never-do-wells to arrest me saying “he’s among ‘, it was like a movie..their stinky alcohol ridden selves were already in my car before I could a thing

what i heard was ‘we are going to alausa’ I tried explaining but it was to DEAF ears (I mean that’s not new with your people), as this act of “heroism” is very commendable by these people you represent , they drove Me to alausa , stressed my life ,

they drove Me to alausa , stressed my life , I won’t come here tweeting if I was wrong , I wasn’t wrong ..ADEYEMI leader of the TEAM C LAGOS TASK FORCE . told me to reverse Inorder for them to arrest the culprit , he recorded me reversing too.

I paid 100k in total, for what I know NOTHING about, I went through stress, and couldn’t fulfil my contractual obligations to , money is gone, but I what I believe will remain . THE NIGERIAN POLICE you represent is filthy, there’s NO reform or cleansing , as for YOUR Adeyemi

as for YOUR Adeyemi and his men . They will Surely meet a Waterloo sooner or later. THE NIGERIAN POLICE

@BenHundeyin @LagosPoliceNG IS THE BIGGEST DUNG EVER, a colossal disgrace to this nation.

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FIJ called Abdulraheem Gbadeyan, the task force’s director of press and public affairs, but he did not take our calls. He also had not responded to our text messages at press time.

When FIJ called Benjamin Hundeyin for comments, he asked that we contact the Police Complaints Unit. The unit did not respond to calls either, and did not respond to our text message.

Ojukwu is a reporter with FIJ in partnership with Report for the World, which matches local newsrooms with talented emerging journalists to report on under-covered issues around the globe.