Medical doctor accuses policemen of extorting N59k from him and his colleagues for parking on the road

A medical doctor, Ohis Ojeabuo, has taken to X to accuse some police officers in Lagos state of extorting N59,000 from him and his colleagues for parking on the road.

In his post, Ohis said he and his colleagues were heading to work when the ‘check engine’ light started flashing.

He said they decided to park immediately to check the problem. He said the officers spotted them and allegedly asked that they pay the sum of N250,000 for parking on the road.

Ultimately, he said they made them drive around and extorted N59,000 from them.

Read his account of what happened below.

“On my way to work this morning by 7 with my colleague (Medical doctors) @_Muyii, our car’s engine light started blinking and we stopped immediately to check what was wrong. Police approached us, seized the keys and told us we had to pay 250k fine for a no parking sign, we tried explaining why we had stopped but they took the keys, we sat in the back seat and they said we would be driving to Alausa Court 18. After much pleading, as we explained to them we are medical doctors and were late to work they collected 59,000 from us.

Once again, Nigeria police never fails to disappoint. A parking ticket is probably not more than 10-20k, but this particular man despite explaining why we had stopped the car and this car was stopped for not up to 20 seconds before they came rushing to us

We had stopped at Shitta Round About, Lagos just in front of where kekes load passengers going to Costain. They took over the car and drove us all the way to Gbagada heading to Alausa before they stopped after collecting the money and drove off @Princemoye1, @BenHundeyin, @PolicNG”

See the video he posted here.