Popular British born Nigerian beauty entrepreneur, Lola Oj has taken to her her Insta stories feature on the gram to vent over the embarrassment, humiliation and harassment she received from some Lagos based police officers earlier today, for simply asking for directions in an unfamiliar route
According to her, she was left in shock after the said policemen bundled herself and her Taxify driver to their station accusing them of taking “one-way” when all they did was drive towards them to ask for directions
Feeling rather cheated, she aired her opinion on social media as other social media users joined the trail
Check out her posts below;
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Ironically, the complaint of this “foreigner’ is coming just a few hours after popular police boss, Dolapo Badmus alleged that most of the negative stories recounted on social media about SARS officials are overhyped
She added that in her opinion, most people talk about SARS on social media to gain relevance, and most celebrities are within this circle.
In her words;
“We are aware that bad news sales faster than good news. People have been feigning SARS attack on the social media.
I am a Zonal Public Relations Officer of the Force and I have noticed that people deforms information even when there is no confrontation at all. Most people somehow, do this to seek relevance on the social media.
Even some celebrities are doing it. The issue has spiraled to the other members of the Police Force: when a normal Policeman did anything uncalled for, they tag it SARS. .
This kind of act is sending a negative picture to the international community about Nigerian Police. We don’t have any other country other than Nigeria, and whatever we do reflects on us a people. .
The negative effects rub off on us too as Policemen. When we are outside the country, they see us as corrupt officers due to social media postings. I have spoken to stakeholders in this #Endsars# campaign group, advising them that there are ways and manners the goal can be achieved without using social media platform to escalate the issue.
SARS integrity has been projected in a negative form abroad, and even some people are afraid to visit home with the insinuation that SARS will attack them” she said.
