The slogan of the police being a friend is false. How do you reconcile a situation where a policeman would ambush people returning from work sieze and destroy their identification cards and other belongings including money and then whisk them away to the Panti (state CID) police station and then label them as "Armed Robbers" and "Criminals" and then ask them to bail themselves with a minimum of N30,000? Or a situation where the police will decide inspite of your level of education to write your statement for you or if you are to write your statement, the policeman will dictate what you should write. In effect, you should write what should incriminate you to justify your arrest.

The foregoing happened to one Micheal I. and others in Lagos on Friday the 24th August 2007 precisely 1915hrs at Five star bus stop on oshodi-apapa expressway while waiting to board a bus going to Ejigbo where he lives. Seizure and wilfull destruction of one's ID Card in itself is a criminal offence committed by a said crime fighter.

The authorities concerned, including the Presidency, the IGP and the Commissioners of Police should call their men to order as it is usual for the authorities to deny the wrong doings of their men.