According to Kola Edokpayi, who shared the news, Policemen in Edo State arrested and detained two Edo men who are based in Kano but came back home for their grandmother's burial.
They were arrested at Stella Obasanjo Hospital while waiting for the corpse of their grand mother.
According to Barrister Benjamin Iluobe, the police arrested them for being in possession of weed, when they could not find wrap of igbo with them, they accused them of membership of secret cult .
The police demanded N200,000 from them for their freedom. However, they refused to comply with the police on the ground that they are innocent. Barrister Iluobe Benjamin questioned the rationale behind the bribe even though the Commissioner of Police wasted money to organize a seminar "Change begins with me".
He exchanged text messages with the CP who claimed to know it all in our state.
The CP, Harilu Gwandu, defended the "illegal" action of his men and angrily ordered that the young men should be charged to court to teach Barrister Iluobe a lesson.
Presently, the brothers are in custody because they refused to part with N200,000.
So things like this still happen in Nigeria?
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