Kamil Mahmud
A
HR Manager has told a rather shocking story highlighting the day some
operatives of SARS allegedly threatened to drink his blood.
Kamil Mahmud, a human resources manager, has alleged being
threatened by some operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Punch
Metro reports.
The 26-year-old claimed that the men threatened to drink his blood for allegedly disrespecting them.
Punch Metro reports that Mahmud had driven behind his brother’s car
to the Ikeja area for an interview on a radio station on Thursday.
They were returning on Friday when three policemen allegedly accosted them at the Agidingbi area of Ikeja.
Speaking with our correspondent on Sunday, Mahmud said he was about
parking by the roadside when the operatives cocked their guns and
threatened to shoot.
He said, “I waved my hand to tell them that I was not running
away and I just wanted to find somewhere to park. I was thinking it was
going to be a normal civilian-police conversation. But I realised the
situation was getting more aggressive even before I got down from the
car.
“One of the policemen asked me to come down from the car and
told my friends and my brothers, who were driving behind me, to stay
back.
“I came down and he said he wanted to search the car. I told
him to go ahead. But before he even tried to search, he had started
manhandling me.
“I told him that he had not even asked for my name or who owned the car I was driving and what I did for a living.
“He, however, searched me and the car without finding anything incriminating.
“I don’t drive with my shoes on; so, when I got down, I was
barefooted. I told the three officers more than five times that I wanted
to get my shoes, but they looked at me with no response.
“The moment I tried to get my shoes, the policemen went berserk
and started slapping and hitting me. One of them was shouting that he
drank blood and he was ready to drink my blood. He pulled my shirt and
trousers and threw me into their vehicle, a Sienna, without a number
plate.”
According to Mahmud, a passerby who wanted to intervene was threatened with a cutlass.
He added that he had attempted to beg the officers when one of them further beat him with a cutlass.
The Edo State indigene said, “As I sat on the back seat of their car, one of them put handcuffs in my hands. They never told me what I did wrong.
“The one who assaulted me with the cutlass started the car and
drove to Ikeja GRA. On getting to the Area F Police Commad, the officers
refused to enter the premises and I told them that they should take me
inside the station and file a report because I really wanted to know
what my offence was. They shouted at me that I still had the mouth to
talk.
“The officer driving had a bottle of gin in front of the car;
he was drinking and driving. They later negotiated with my brothers and
demanded N15,000.
“My brothers went to use the ATM at Conoil Filling Station, but
the ATM did not dispense cash. Then one of the policemen got angry and
started driving towards Oba Akran Road. When we got there, he parked and
waited for my brothers.
“My brothers came and told them that they were able to get
N8,000. They collected it, removed the handcuffs from my hand and told
me to get out of their car.”
Mahmud demanded the arrest and prosecution of the policemen, adding that he was robbed by the law enforcement agents.
He said the cops wore the F-SARS jackets and had guns with police tags.
The Lagos State Police Public Relation Officer, CSP Chike Oti, said, “They
are not SARS officials because SARS officials in Lagos State have
uniforms that have code numbers with which they can be identified easily
and SARS officials in Lagos State are under the instruction of the
Commissioner of Police not to conduct stop and search in Lagos State.
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