The Special Anti-Robbery squad allegedly robbed a student

Adetokunbo. That's what he's simply identified as. And he's not joking with his accusations. The guys, the guys whose job it is to catch robbers, robbed him.

Adetokunbo is an undergraduate of the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Lagos, Akoka. According to him, he was attacked and robbed in Okota Area of Lagos.

According to Punch, the 200-level student of Philosophy said that four policemen accused him of being a Yahoo boy because he uses an iPhone. You know what a Yahoo Boy is right? An Internet Fraudster? Good.

Adetokunbo said that the men had earlier arrested two other suspects who were in their car, as the officers took them on a tumultous ride around Lagos.

But the policemen didn't just stop with a mini-tour of Lagos, they made all of them go to their ATM, and forced them to withdraw N100,000 each from the other two guys. Adetokunbo was dropped off at the Third Mainland Bridge after he withdrew N70,000 from his account. That was his school fees.

Here's what Adetokunbo said:

“I am a clothier, but I am also undergoing part time studies at UNILAG. I am in 200 level. To raise part of my school fees, which was already due, I had to sell some of my property.

“I had gone to deliver some clothes to a customer in Okota sometime in April and was returning on a motorcycle around 3pm, when I observed that there was panic in the area. The motorcycle rider that took me almost threw me into a gutter.

“I was still chiding him when the operatives approached me and said I was a Yahoo boy. They held me by the trousers as I protested and struggled with them, asking for my offence. I pushed one of them away. They all descended on me and started hitting me.

“They put me in handcuffs and threw me inside their car. The beating was much. They were slapping me from different sides. I told them to check my ID card or allow me to make a call. They didn’t listen to me or even check my phone. They asked who my father was that made me use an iPhone, which they could not afford.”

About the other guys, he said:

“They took N70,000 from me and took the other guys to the ATM to withdraw money, which I gathered was N100,000 each. They released them at Oworonsoki.

“My pain in all of these was not even the beating, but the fact that I had to defer my education because of the money they collected from me."

This happens quite often.

This happens very often in Lagos. So often in Lagos that any young male seen walking and carrying a laptop in a backpack is automatically a suspect.

"The last time they stopped me, they dragged me to their van and beat me," a UNILAG student who has chosen to remain anonymous, said.

According to Punch, the Police have contacted Adetokunbo and are inviting him for a meeting, but he's scared for his life.

“While I was in the car with them, they pointed a gun to my head and said they could waste me and nothing would happen. I am afraid for my life, but I want those men brought to book. The police can find them in the Gowon Estate, Egbeda, and Okota, Isolo, areas of the state.”

We'll keep you up to speed as this story progresses.