A man has related how he was allegedly arrested at a bank because he was unusually calm while waiting for his turn to collect his money.
The story was shared by a Nigerian man identified as Najeeb Bello Oyarese on Twitter while responding to a tweet which asked people to share their arrest story.
Oyarese said he was at the bank to collect money and met a huge crowd. He said he decided to wait his turn and did not participate in the pushing and shoving by other customers.
Unknown to him, officials of DSS were at the bank to arrest two fraudsters who were expected to present cheques at the bank counter.
The DSS officials were monitoring their targets and waiting for them to approach the cashier to present their cheques so they could arrest them.
The man further narrated that the DSS officials noticed that he had been in the banking hall for about two hours and was sitting calmly. They consequently arrested him for suspicious behaviour believing that he must be linked to the other two fraudsters arrested.
Read his full narration below:
“Benin was the craziest because DSS arrested me in GTBank, Sapele Road because I entered the bank on a Friday and calmly waited for hours while others were rushing to get their money. They said my behaviour was very abnormal and unNigerian.
By the way, this is the worst day of my life and I plan to make a movie about it.
It started with me taking a bus from UNIBEN to Ring Road on a rainy day, and the bus parked up inside a big pool of mud at Uselu. Passengers had to come out in the rain and wade through the mud.
The day ended with me finally arriving back in Ekosodin and my neighbours came out of the hostel begging me that they had messed up big time.
What happened? They took my keys to watch movies in my room, tried to keep the key back on top of my window, but it fell into the room.
Anyway, middle of the story….when they brought those 2 criminals out, they used one handcuff to cuff them together, but immediately I got out of the bank, they used a brand new pair of silver handcuffs to cuff my hands together, as per mastermind.
It had to be a nightmare!
The worst part was the way bank staff I had known for years reacted: “Ah! Sadiq’s brother is among them? You can never really trust people O!” 🙆🏾🙆🏾♀️🙆🏾♂️
Only one came out to ask if he could call my brother. I said no. Asked him to reach into my wallet, ‘call General Zibiri’!
General Zibiri talked to the DSS team lead, and all I heard was “I’m sorry sir, Yes sir, I’m sorry sir, Yes sir”. After the call he told his men, “Let him go!”.
They uncuffed me, and I walked up to him. Asked ‘Is that all?’. He apologized, and that was when I asked him why…
He said he was observing the 2 criminals waiting for them to tender the cheque again so he could arrest, then he noticed me having entered the bank for more than 2 hours, I seemed unbothered about getting my money. I wasn’t rushing, wasn’t stressing. Very unNigerian and abnormal.”
