Some power-drunk mobile officers attached to the Police Special Fraud Unit in Lagos State on Wednesday, harassed, seized the telephone and identity card of a reporter with The PUNCH Newspaper, Toni Ufoh.
Ufoh had gone to the Milverton in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State where the office of the SFU was located to speak with some prospective tenants allegedly defrauded by a developer, Adewale Tunde.
He was speaking to Adewale’s victims in front of the station when he was approached by the policemen, who accused him of filming the SFU building, after which they seized his telephone and ID card.
All efforts to retrieve the items proved abortive, as the policemen manhandled Ufoh and deleted the pictures of the housing scam victims in his phone.
The reporter, while recounting his ordeal said, “About three policemen, one in camouflage and the others in mufti, approached me as I was speaking to one of the victims of the fraud at the SFU office gate.
