An X user, @dottibumblebee has accused men of the Nigerian police of forcefully collecting his life savings of N500,000 on Tuesday (today) in Benin, the Edo state capital, News About Nigeria reports.
In a now-viral post shared on his X account, the Nigerian man who shared a short clip of the police slamming the door of the car he was in said that when the officers stopped him, they accused him of being a cultist.
He further narrated that the officers also made threats to his life which led to him trading his USDT on his binance to give them the N500,000 for his safety.
His post partly reads, “Today I was stopped and held hostage by some police officers in Benin City, they accused me of being a cultist and threatened to take my life. They later searched my phone and found out I had some money on binance wallet.
“I was literally threatened to death by this officers which lead me to trading my Usdt on my binance app pay them 500,000 thousand naira using pos.”
The X user further lamented that the money forcefully collected from him by the men of the Nigerian police was his life savings that he had saved in order to start school this year.
According to him, upon completion of his secondary school education, he started working under someone as a photographer and had done that for the last four years, but decided to further his education at a Polytechnic this year only for the police to collect all his savings.
While recounting how he starved to be able to save the money to train himself in school, the man noted that his life has been shattered and he does not know where to start.
An X user, @iconicsteve01, in response to his accusations against men of the Nigerian Police, slammed them, noting that the police are now being littered with criminals who are in uniform.
His tweet reads, “They are definitely armed robbers in police uniform, that’s what you get when the police keeps recruiting ex convicts. Many graduates are out there looking for jobs but they won’t recruit them, they only compensate crime.”
