A video of how police officers harassed Seun Oluyole, a k.a. Sean Dampte, and four others on their way to a content shoot has surfaced on the internet and caused a buzz.
Dampte and four other artists had a rough time at the hands of police officers along Oniru, Lagos, but for a calmer officer who intervened on that Friday, April 14 matter.
The UK-based musician and others, in a convoy of three cars, were on their way to the Landmark beach at Oniru when police officers stopped them.
Rather than ask for the identities of the occupants of the cars, they were roughly exited from each vehicle and searched. Nothing was found on them, and the car was also searched. It ended with discovering an art knife Dampte had bought in Kenya during his Africa Tour ’23, preparatory to his London concert scheduled for September this year.
When the musician asked the officer to explain why they were being stopped, the officer became livid and threatened to put them in jail. When one of his team members wanted to call an undisclosed individual, the angry officer went political, accusing Nigerian youths of blaming the police for complicity in the acclaimed unfair election recently held in Lagos, especially, and Nigeria in general.
“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 in jail, and that no amount of begging, while inside the four walls, would set them free.
Eventually, the musicians were allowed to go their way, while the knife, even when the receipt for it was shown to the officer, was seized.
Video of the harassment shot by a media man has surfaced on the internet and has been generating a lot of responses.
The “I Dey Consider” crooner is now considering the threat posed by the police to Nigerian youth as he sees no reason for the brouhaha with the officers.
