VIDEO: Woman stops police from taking boys away after phone search in Lagos
September 9, 2026 3:14 pm
A scene from the confrontation. Photo credit: Screenshot
A woman was seen confronting policemen in a viral video after they allegedly attempted to take two young boys away following a search of their phones.
The video, shared on Wednesday by an X user, @dammiedammie35, captured the woman challenging the officers and demanding that the boys be released.
“Are you crazy? These two boys are not going anywhere! You have to release them immediately,” the woman was heard saying.
She also questioned the officers’ alleged targeting of young men, asking, “Is it every young boy that makes hair you’ll be targeting?”
One of the boys, who was recording the encounter, alleged that the officers had begun taking them away while one of them was still checking his phone.
He said, “When one officer was still checking my phone and was not even done, they pushed the other boy into the van and was slapping him.”
An officer involved in the encounter was also heard explaining why the officers attempted to check the phones, saying, “When we wanted to check the phone, one of the boys were saying they can’t, that they’re doing illegal searches.”
The officer further warned the boy, “If it’s your father that’s even the IG of Police, you’ll show respect to us first.”
Another officer was heard asking the boy recording the incident to “calm down”, but he responded, I won’t calm down, after forcing us into the bus.”
According to the post accompanying the video, the officers searched the boys’ phones and allegedly told them to call whoever they wished to contact. The X user claimed that the woman and another person prevented the officers from taking the boys away after allegedly conducting an illegal search of their phones.
The circumstances leading to the encounter, the reason for the police search and whether the search was unlawful could not be independently verified by PUNCH Online.
The incident has since generated reactions on X, with users alleging similar encounters involving young men and police officers in Ikorodu, Lagos.
One X user, #ARedhat, claimed, “One told me they will kill me and dump my body in the trench. I have proof of everything. They mount their road block in Ikorodu Garage to Adamo Road.” The user further alleged that some of the men involved were not police officers.
Another user, #The_Marteenez, claimed to have experienced a similar encounter in Ikorodu, alleging that young people were sometimes bundled into police vehicles and accused of being cultists or fraudsters.
PUNCH Online had previously reported that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Tijani Fatai, warned officers against searching people’s phones during stop-and-search operations.
The CP said, “Our men have been warned not to search any phone from any individual. We are there to search the vehicles.”
He directed officers to focus on vehicle checks and passenger verification, while adding that officers acting within the law should not be afraid of being recorded.
Watch video here:
𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎: 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐬
Credit: X | dammiedammie35
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