@UncleDara_, an Abuja-based Twitter user has accused some policemen in the\u00a0Gwarinpa area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, of allegedly stopping him twice in the week and questioning him for driving a 2009 Honda Accord Coupe.<\/p>\n
The tweep who tagged the Force Police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Wednesday, narrated that, \u201cYour men of the Anti-Car Theft around Gwarinpa harassed me for the second time in less than a week. They stopped me, asked for car papers, searched my car and one of the officers wanted to know where I work. I told him.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe asked about my salary. I told him I don\u2019t think he can ask me that and he said how much is my salary as an engineer that I could afford a 2009 Honda Accord Coupe, and that I must be doing something unlawful and fraudulent. They insist I will go to the station.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cMy crime is that I have a car they think I can\u2019t afford. I had to call my lawyer, @SamoraFortune, whom they refused to talk to. Then he (the lawyer) said he was coming to meet us there, and that was when they allowed me to go.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Describing the development as unfair, the tweep added that it was the \u201csecond time in one week and it\u2019s the same set of officers. Is it okay for a policeman on the road to ask me how much I earn?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The FFPRO, who reacted to the tweet on Wednesday evening, stated that similar men had stopped him in a car before, and they couldn\u2019t answer him professionally when he challenged them.<\/p>\n Anti-Car Theft? Were they in uniform? I guess I sent them away from a point in Abuja not quite long (ago). They stopped me in my car, and I felt uncomfortable with their conduct. I asked them some questions but they couldn\u2019t reply to me professionally,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the police spokesman tweeted.<\/p>\n When contacted on Thursday to ask if the policemen had been identified, Adejobi told\u00a0PUNCH Metro<\/em>\u00a0that he had referred the matter to the FCT Command.<\/p>\n \u201cI have referred the matter to the FCT command, so you can follow up with the PPRO FCT,\u201d he said in response to a text message from our correspondent.<\/p>\n The FCT Command\u2019s PRO, Josephine Adeh, however, said she didn\u2019t know about the case.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know the case, but you can come to my office and give me more details,\u201d she said in response to a chat from our correspondent on Thursday.<\/p>\n Efforts to reach the tweep,\u00a0@UncleDara_<\/em>, for further details of the incident were also abortive as he was yet to respond to a direct message sent to him by our correspondent on\u00a0Twitter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" @UncleDara_, an Abuja-based Twitter user has accused some policemen in the\u00a0Gwarinpa area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, of allegedly stopping him twice in the week and questioning him for driving a 2009 Honda Accord Coupe. 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