The spokesperson of Lagos state police command, Bala Elkana, has said that Nigerians who rock tattoos and dreadlocks are being harassed by law enforcement agents because the fashion style is strange to our culture.

Elkana who stated this in an interview with BBC pidgin, condemned the recent killing of a football fan, Kolade Johnson in the state.

He said police officers usually harass any youth wearing dreadlocks or have a tattoo on them because most of the cultists that have been arrested wear dreadlocks or have tattoos on them.

The spokesperson further said that the police has overtime seen a connection between cultism and those that rock dreadlocks and have tattoos on their body

According to him;

“tattoo and dreadlocks are strange to our culture especially for Nigeria. Most times when you arrest cultists, many of them have signs on them.”