Policemen, believed to be from the Sabo Police Division, yesterday, picked up a former member of Trybesmen, Kunle Bello – also known as KB or Kaboom.
According to the artiste, who has gone into other ventures now, they drove around the vicinity, picking people up randomly from their cars and hangouts, into their Black Maria. No offences committed. No charges filed.
He was however able to relate his ordeal in the hands of the policemen, via his Twitter account @kunlebello. He has not updated his page since 2.32am and there’s no news of his release from detention, sparking mass outrage and angry reactions on the social network.
Below are some of the tweets from his timeline:
“So I’ve just been carried with bout 5 of my peoples by the Nigerian Police Force. We dey inside Black Maria and they’ve said nothing
“This shit hasn’t happened since Uni when we were under a military regime. But it’s democracy now and there really isn’t a difference
“This Is Nigeria! There you are minding ur own business and the people meant to protect ur life and property will come to arrest U forcefully
“@supersanusi actor ke? They’ve used gun to brush like 3 guys in front of me for temporarily resisting. I’m gentle
“And people will be hating on people that have given up on 9ja….can U blame them?
“They are Sabo Policemen btw. DPO Sabo dey here too
“They put the only babe they carried in solitary confinement. Doctor”s fiancee. Chick must be out of her damn mind!
“It’s almost funny. Only it isn’t! They just driving around picking random people. Now we’re in front of emBARssy.
“They just ejected some nigga from his car leaving his female passenger bewildered. Na ‘for what?’ hin dey scream, na brush dem dey brush am
“Now we’re @ Fola Agoro. Whoever’s driving this Black Maria(h) is high on some cheap drugs
“And these are the people Uncle Fash wants to enforce his new Lagos traffic laws? SMH!
“Just passed Roadrunners (our original destination)…they didn’t even blink. Settlement confirmed!
“The worst thing about all this is some regular person will find a way to justify this shit. On some ‘ehn, they need to arrest people’
“Some dude here has been screaming since “we be security for OANDO, nobody dey there oh!”……chinned!
“On my spare battery now. I worry for the girl in solitary confinement. This driver is doing ‘Hypnotized’ on the highway
“Uh oh, looks like we’re headed to Alausa. Apparently they’re just playing it by ear….or not
“So the Sabo DPO decided2dispatch the people he might have to answer for elsewhere. Well played! Some people here have his no. sef. Chinned!
“We don reach Alausa. Just had to pee in a jerry can in front of like 30 other men. Aint no thang. Still no word from our captors, the NPF
“Shebi they even carried us from pub. They ‘moved’ some people here from inside emBARssy, an actual joint that belongs to Basket, KP&JSalako
“Many people here are convinced that RoadRunners re-opening was the catalyst for these seemingly-random arrests. That’s just sad
“Cos apparently they went to every other joint in Yaba and arrested people but they drove past RR. Conspiracy Theory but…..
“Still in sum classroom type enclosure in Alausa wit some hardened criminals. OK, they’re just fellow friday rockers. Not even the rowdy type.”
UPDATE: Osagie Alonge, a journalist with The NET, has just confirmed that Mr. Bello has been released, after he produced his driver’s license, as proof of identification. Alonge also tweeted the picture below:
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