Police midnight raid

How do you carry out a superior’s order, fuelled by stimulants, especially in a system of “obey first before complain?” Guess you just have to obey the last order as it were. That was just what some policemen did last Sunday, throwing many homes into anguish, simply because a superior said so.

Petty traders selling their wares on the main road around the Conoil/Ikeja General Hospital axis were in for a rude shock when policemen from a popular Area…carried out the said midnight raid.

Eko Akete reliably gathered that the order came from above. Not only were the traders’ wares seized, a huge bonfire was arranged at the corner of the road and all the seized goods were burnt.

A food seller who had prepared rice and beans and other foods to sell to policemen on night duty and other night crawlers was shocked when the cart she used to transport the foods was seized and all the contents, including her coolers and plates, burnt.

Women selling alcoholic drinks were also not spared. The traders watched helplessly as hundreds of their bottles of alcohol were tossed into the flames.

Eko Akete also gathered that when the “Mama Put” owner tried to resist ‘arrest’, one overzealous policeman threatened to throw her into the bonfire if she did not cooperate. She did quickly before becoming “asun”.

Sources, however, told Eko Akete that the superior who gave the “order from above” had just come out of a popular joint and was visibly “high” when he made the pronouncement, to which his own just threw salute and went into action. This Lagos sef!