A student of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) in Abeokuta, Ogun State, has narrated how police officers attached to the ‘Oluwo Police Post‘ Police Station in Oluwo arrested her for having sex and using contraceptives.
The student, who asked not to be named, told FIJ that she was returning to her house on Bankole Oluwo Street from a local pharmacy at about 11 am on Friday when the officers arrested her.
She said the officers stopped her and asked for her profession and she said she was a student. Then they asked her what was in the polythene bag she was carrying, and she told them drugs.
“They asked what type of drugs were in the bag, and while attempting to explain, one of them immediately collected my bag and checked everything in it. He asked me for the name of what he saw in the bag, and I said pregnancy test,” she told FIJ.
“The next thing one of them asked was: ‘Do you want to kill yourself?’ I tried explaining that what they saw was a contraceptive but not abortion pills. They would not listen, but forced me to their station.”
She said the officers asked her why she had sex, but she ignored them. After a while, the officers asked her to call her boyfriend, saying she could not have had sex alone.
She said she told the officers she was 25 years old when they asked her about her age. But it did not matter to them as they kept asking her why she had sex. They also insisted that she call her boyfriend. She told them she would not call him, but the officers were offended and locked her up in their cell.
She said she called her sister, who took the issue to social media. A relative of the victim learned of what had happened and rushed to the police station to plead with the officers to let her go, but they would not listen.
“Her friend came to beg them too, but they told her to pay N10,000 to bail me out. She pleaded and ended up paying N2,000 in cash before the officers let me go. Some MAPOLY Student Union executives were in the police station to tell them there was nothing wrong with using a contraceptive. But the officers became infuriated,” she said.
“After they locked me up, they arrested the pharmacist for selling the drugs to me. When she pleaded with them, they then extorted N1,000 from her.”
