Police Refund N260 Thousand They Extorted From Young Influencer And Refuses To Bring The Corrupt Officers To Book (Read full gist)

A young Twitter influencer, Bakare Olumide known as “@_VALKING” was taken into custody on Tuesday while on his way to work.

He allegedly accused the Lagos State Ogudu Police Command of extorting the sum of N260 Thousand from him and he was made to confess falsely on a crime he didn’t commit.

After the incident, he took to twitter to share his ordeal while tagging CEO Aliens Media and Communications, also Convener of the #EndSARS movement, Segun Awosanya.

According to VALKING on Twitter, “Some members of the Nigerian Police (Ogudu branch), forced a confession, statement and N260,000 out of me yesterday”.

“They beat, threatened & made me feel completely powerless. I have not recovered from the harassment, but I need this story to be out there.”

“They stopped my Uber and asked the driver to drive us straight to ogudu police station.

When we got there, they took us to one small corner in the police station with a 2 wooden rooms. They collected my phones, my airpods, ID card”.

“Even as I explained that I was an influencer & I work for several brands, they kept on searching my email, IG, Twitter, & my WhatsApp for God knows what.

After asking questions which I gave proper answers to, they saw one text in a group chat I’m in that read “gay men dey pay”.

“It was a discussion I was having with some friends about closeted gay activities we’d heard rumors about

On seeing that, the officer searching my phone said “this one na gay.

I was like “Gay????” and I laughed cuz the whole thing was ridiculous.”

“Next thing he said ‘you think say I dey follow you laugh’, told me to take off my shirt and started beating me with a pipe. They forced me to write a statement saying I had male clients who paid me to have casual sex with them, and even listed name for me.”

“They told me to add amounts to the front of the names too and recorded me confessing (at gun point).

When they saw my account balance, they demanded for half a million, saying they would send this video to the brands I work for, post it online and they’ll lock me for days.”

“so I won’t be able to counter it. They said they could even kill me there. 

After begging and everything, they agreed to collect N260k. They didn’t collect transfer, instead, they called someone to come, so I could send via Paga.”

“Afterwards, they told me it’s better to do yahoo than to be gay, coz according to them “yahoo go dey pay better.

I didn’t want to take any steps. I just wanted to carry on tweeting as though all was well, but it’s not.”

In VALKING defence, Segun Awosanya called out the Lagos State Ogudu Police Command DPO and asked the money to be refunded and the corrupt officers brought to book.

In less than 24 hours, the sum of N260 Thousand was refunded to the young influencer and while everyone wanted the DPO to identify the corrupt officers. She refused and shielded their claims.

This made Nigerian Twitter call out for the head of the Lagos State Ogudu Police DPO.

Currently, it’s been reported that the young influencer, Bakare Olumide, Segun Awosanya and others are on their way to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police office to bring the corrupt officers to book.