A video of how police officers harassed musician Seun Oluyole aka Sean Dampte and four others while on their way to a content shoot has been causing a buzz on the internet.
Dampte and four artistes had a rough time in the hands of police officers along Oniru, Lagos.
It took the intervention of a calmer officer to remedy the situation on April 14.
The UK-based musician and others in a convoy of three cars were on their way to the Landmark beach at Oniru when the police officers stopped them.
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They were roughly exited from each vehicle and searched. With nothing found on them, the vehicle was also searched, leading to discovery of an art knife that Dampte bought in Kenya during his Africa Tour ’23, preparatory to his London concert scheduled for September.
When the musician asked why they were being stopped, the police officer became livid and threatened to put them in jail. When one of his team members wanted to make a call to an unknown individual, the angry officer went political, accusing youths of blaming the police for complicity in the last general elections.
“I go change am for you now now,” he said, while a calmer officer appealed to the musicians to relax and be calm.
The officer continued to shout and warned the musicians that more powerful Nigerians than Dampte were in jail and nothing would stop him from seeing them end up there too.
He added no amount of begging, while inside the four walls, would set them free.
Eventually the musicians were allowed to go while the knife, even when the receipt was shown to the officer, was seized.
The video of the incident shot by a media crew member has been generating ripples on the internet.
The “I Dey Consider” crooner is considering the threat posed by the police wondering why the brouhaha with the officers.