Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered police officers to sieze the act of checking citizens’ phones.
For years now, operatives had forcefully snatched phones belonging to innocent citizens and insisted on going through the phones of Nigerians youths at checkpoints after which they “billed” an amount to secure the release of the gadget.
But Adamu, at a press briefing on Wednesday, announced that it won’t happen anymore.
He said, “The issue of any Police unit going to look into people’s phones, which is supposed to be their private property, or looking at the type of vehicle they‘re using, or profiling them to see whether they‘re yahoo boys or not. That era is gone. It is not acceptable”.
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