A Nigerian Disc Jockey, The Turnup Maestro, recognized on X as #_djtrendy, has narrated his ordeal on how he was once taken to the Kirikiri Custodian Centre in Lagos Situation.
Recounting his revel in by means of his X deal with on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, the DJ said that his ordeal began on Sunday, July 7, 2024, when some operatives of the Lagos Situation Police Command connected to the Olosan Police Station arrived at the living room the place he works.
He famous that upon their arrival, the safety males chased the purchasers clear of the living room and seized his computer.
He added that two days after, the living room’s supervisor and the spouse of the living room’s proprietor (names unknown) was at the police station to say the computer and the chief referred to as him that his presence was once wanted on the station prior to the computer might be discharged.
He wrote, “On Sunday, July 7, 2024, the Olosan Police Station got here to the living room I DJ, pursued all consumers and my computer was once taken within the procedure. I used to be simply popping out of the restroom when this came about.
“So fast forward to Tuesday, July 9, the lounge manager and the lounge owner’s wife went to the police station to claim the laptop that was taken. The manager put a call through to me, telling me the police said they want to see me before they release the laptop to them, so I went to meet them.”
When he (the DJ) arrived on the station, he mentioned the Divisional Police Officer requested that he incrible a remark prior to which he was once labelled a cultist and put in the back of the counter, along the living room’s supervisor.
“Right away I were given to the station, the DPO referred to as one in every of his officials to remove me in and remove my remark. That’s how I were given to the IPO’s workplace, later he began telling me that I’m a cultist, that I used to be enjoying for cultists, and that once they got here to the mentioned living room, they noticed community smoking and all.
“He later proceeded to offer me a sheet of paper to put in writing the whole thing I knew.
“Well, I wrote how everything happened. A few minutes later, my lounge manager came in too, that’s how they said I’m done with mine and they told the manager to write his own too. I was behind the counter at this point helpless,” the tweets added.
The disc jockey said that he and the chief “were detained” and installed a cellular on the station on Tuesday as they remained incommunicado.
Refer to time, Wednesday, July 10, they had been discharged and ordered to stay in the back of the counter.
Then again, in a flip of occasions, they had been after installed handcuffs and brought to a Justice of the Peace Court docket within the Ogba section of the order.
The tweets learn additional, “They put us in a cellular that Tuesday. We couldn’t achieve out to somebody, we weren’t even allowed to form touch with the living room proprietor’s spouse. Rapid ahead to the second one time, July 10, we had been discharged and the IPO instructed us to take a seat in the back of the counter.
“A couple of mins after, he referred to as us into his workplace and handcuffed us, later instructed us to journey into the minivan parked within the police compound. They began riding and we had been steadily asking the place he was once taking us. He didn’t solution. That’s how we were given to the Justice of the Peace Court docket at Ogba.
“Handcuffed, we were able to whisper our lounge owner’s number to one of the lawyers that was around us. We were helpless. We only went to the police station to collect the laptop but instead, they peddled us like criminals. So the lawyer was able to call our lounge owner and he came in with the lawyer just a few minutes before our case was called.”
The DJ claimed that the policemen had “written false allegations” towards them however the presiding pass judgement on (title unknown) granted them bail.
Afterwards, they had been taken to the Kirikiri Correctional Facility prior to their let go two days after.
He wrote, “They’d already written fake allegations towards us. All the allegations they wrote had been utterly fake. So the pass judgement on made her judgment. We had been put on bail however our living room proprietor couldn’t highest the bail that time.
“That’s how had been had been taken to the Kirikiri Jail on that time, July 10, 2024. We spent two days at Kirikiri correctional facility and we had been discharged on Friday, July 12 then he perfected the bail. My computer remains to be on the Olosan Police Station.
“I have always lived my life fight-free, crime-free. I have never broken a law before. The police that was supposed to protect me lied against me. I am very traumatised.”
In some other follow-up tweet, the disc jockey wrote, “I have been crying for days. No one deserves to be going through something like this. I didn’t do anything wrong. I am a law-abiding citizen. I don’t deserve this pain they caused me.”
When contacted, the order Police Society Members of the family Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, didn’t reply to telephone cries nor textual content messages despatched to his cellular quantity when submitting this file.