Singer Skales calls out Nigerian police over excessive number of road checkpoints 

Nigerian singer and rapper Raoul John Njeng Njeng aka Skales has taken to social media to call out the Nigerian police over the excessive number of checkpoints on the road.

Skales in a post shared on his X handle emphasized that he despises the police and expressed his contempt for the way they treat people as well as their misuse of authority.

He wrote, “My hate for Nigerian police still stands…very horrible set of humans … police wey no get money go dey stress fellow poor man knowing fully well what their doing is wrong… knowing fully well that they are just taking advantage of power given to them.”

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Skales continued, “e be like say na how to stop Benz them dey teach dem sef.. they just mount for orchid road shamelessly stressing youths to end up begging for money.. no honour at all useless people.”

The musician also pointed out the numerous checks on Orchid Road especially and accused the police of stereotyping luxury automobile drivers and purposely targeting them to beg for money.

“Like @NigeriapolicePR… why do you have like all your policemen on orchid road like kilode … they can’t do me shit cos I’m no criminal but it’s legal to have like 3 to 4 checkpoints just 2 minutes drive away from each other … all they do is stop Benz and ask very stupid questions and when they don’t get wat they want na either insults or begging for money … look into it o cos now I go just dey wear camera for body they post everything online … its super annoying,” he wrote.

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