The spokesperson for the Nigeria Police Force, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has described any officer who insists on checking a citizen’s phone as a scavenger.
Adejobi in a tweet shared on his handle, said except a phone is an exhibit for investigation, no officer has the right to ask a citizen to open his phone for checks.
A Twitter user had asked him if the police had right to check one’s phone on the road.
The Twitter user asked:
“Sir, please does a police have right to check phone if I am on the road?
“Please I need your answer sir.
“Thank you.”
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Responding, Adejobi tweeted,
“No policeman has the right to check one’s phone anywhere except the phone is an exhibit in a case under investigation and that phone must be marked as exhibit.
“Any policeman who does that is not a policeman but rather a scavenger.”
Reacting, Adejobi in a tweet shared on his handle, said except a phone is an exhibit for investigation, no officer has the right to ask a citizen to open his phone for checks.
