A video of a policeman identified as Gambo, who took N20, 000 bribe from an undercover journalist has gone viral online.
The undercover journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, who works with TheCable drove the equivalent of a stolen vehicle from Abuja to Lagos State without having valid vehicle papers.
Soyombo, who reportedly passed through 86 checkpoints in a journey of over 1,600km that lasted for 28hours 17 minutes, arrived Lagos safely with the car and returned to Abuja scot-free.
According to him, just by the exit of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway into the descent leading to Ife Road, a policeman named Gambo aggressively flagged him down during the second part of the undercover investigation.
Soyombo negotiated with the policeman and agreed to give him N20,000 as bribe to free his vehicle which had no papers.
The policeman after collecting the money told the journalist some other dubious ways to avoid police officers checkpoints as well as the lies to tell when he comes across such encounters.
It was unknown to Gambo that their discussion was being recorded by the journalist.
Soyombo said,
“When he requests for my papers and I tell him I don’t have, he climbs into the car with me, signals his colleague that he is leaving the scene with me, and asks me to drive off. He doesn’t exactly tell me the destination, but rather than go right towards Ife Road, he asks me to exit the roundabout to the left, towards Idi-Ape in Ibadan.
“When I politely ask to be allowed to park nearby so we can discuss, Gambo, as the officer would later introduce himself as, drags the car steering with me.
“I’m not a easy person like that o,” he says emphatically. “You want to argue with me? Even if we are going to discuss, don’t cause holdup. Don’t argue with me; you cannot argue with me, oga. I’m not a easy person like that o. I say go!”
See video below:
