DJ Trendy, an X (formerly Twitter) user residing in Lagos State, has detailed how unscrupulous officers from Olosan Police Station in Mushin levelled a false allegation against him before sending him to prison for two days.

In an X thread on Tuesday, the disc jockey said that his experience with the dark side of the Nigerian Police Force started on July 7, when police officers from Olosan Police Station entered the lounge where he was playing and confiscated his laptop.

Two days later, the manager of the lounge and the wife of its owner went to the police station to claim the laptop, but the police asked them to invite its owner.

The DJ said that immediately after he arrived at the police station, the divisional police officer (DPO) asked an officer to take him in to obtain his statement, but on getting to the office of the inspecting police officer, he was labelled a cultist.

“The IPO began to accuse me of playing for cultists, saying that they saw people smoking at the lounge. He then gave me a sheet of paper to write everything I knew, which I did. A few minutes later, my lounge manager came in and wrote his statement. I was behind the counter at this point, so my lounge manager and I were detained,” he tweeted.

He said that the police officers put them in a cell that day and prevented them from contacting anyone, such as the wife of the lounge’s owner. On July 10, the police released them, but the IPO asked them to sit at the back of the counter.

A few minutes later, DJ Trendy wrote, the IPO called him and his manager into his office. When they got there, he handcuffed them and ordered them to go into the minivan parked in the compound. He would not tell them where they were headed despite their questions but drove continuously until he arrived at a magistrate’s court in Ogba.

“We were able to whisper our lounge owner’s number to one of the lawyers that was around us. The lawyer was able to call the owner of the lounge, who came in with the lawyer minutes before our case was called. All of the allegations they wrote were completely false,” the DJ said.

“The judge made her judgment – we were placed on bail, but our lounge owner couldn’t perfect the bail that day. This was how we were taken to Kirikiri prison on July 10. We spent two days at the Kirikiri correctional facility and were released on Friday, July 12, after he perfected the bail.

“My laptop is still at the Olosan Police Station. I have always lived my life fight-free and crime-free. The police that were supposed to protect me lied against me. I am very traumatised.”

When FIJ called Benjamin Hundeyin for comments, he did not take his calls. He also had not responded to a text sent to his phone at press time.