Police “harass, detain man for having dreadlocks” in Lagos
A hairstylist, Olakunle, claims some policemen at Iwaya police station harassed and detained him on Monday for having dreadlocks.
He said the officers accused him of being “gay” and looking “like a girl”.
Olakunle said he was stopped by the officers who, after seeing his ID, still dragged him to their station.
“I was on my way to style someone at Ogudu, I entered a public transport and was stopped by a guy at Ojota who asked me to introduced myself I asked why he said his police, they asked for my ID card I showed them,” Olakunle said.
“Then he said I looked like a girl in my ID and that was how they started yelling and calling me names, then they took me and put me in their bus, took me all the way from Ojota to Iwaya Police Post then I asked what my offence was, they said I look like Gay, Indecent Act and I’m too Slim that I’m a witch and I’m looking derain in nature.”
He said he was locked up from 9am – 4pm and was only released after being made to part with N5,000.
Olakunle’s experience at the hands of the allegedly overzealous officers is not an isolated incident, as many citizens continue to complain about badly behaved police officers.
