Drama As SARS Officers Mistake Footballer Gbolahan Salami For “Yahoo Boy”

Tuesday, December 19, 2017, a drama played out on one of Lagos roads.

This was about 2.30pm.

Officers of the police investigating unit known as SARS (Special Anti Robbery Squad) operating in a light blue Sports Utility Vehicle (suv) “waylaid” a glimmering white Mercedes Benz car.

The “action” took place on Iju road, just some meters to the popular “Fagba junction”- on the side of vehicles in the direction of Iju Ishaga.

The SUV blocked moving cars in a manner that boxed the Mercedes Benz in traffic.

Four officers in “plain clothes” bearing police riffles jumped down from the car and surrounded the glimmering the automobile.

SARS was written on the top of one or two of the “officers”.

The occupants of the Benz were two males. The driver was sporting a dreadlock with a tiny silver earring to match.

The policemen immediately engaged the occupants right there in traffic, bringing all moving vehicles to a complete halt.

The engagement became the cynosure of all eyes as passers-by halt and crowd started gathering to view the unfolding drama.

The driver was ordered to pull out of the traffic and park in a manner that blocked one of the two lanes for a search of his vehicle.

Cool and calm, he obeyed.

Got down and opened his car boot and the officers started pushing “things aside”, but suddenly conscious of the “huge traffic” caused by how he was parked, the driver requested to move the attractive vehicle off the road.

The request was granted. The crowd had increased in numbers. The driver of the police SUV was all smiles as his colleagues “diligently” go about their duty in front of the increasing spectators.

As the driver moved the car, the other occupant standing with SARS officers said cheekily “Oga, so you don’t know super eagles player Gbolahan Salami?”.

For reasons unclear, the officer the statement was directed to flared up “shut up” he thundered.

“Na everybody we go know” another officer chipped in.

The unidentified “occupant” smiled and didn’t utter any other word.

By the time they got to where the driver now identified as Salami was parked, the hard stance of the “officers” had softened.

“We can’t know everybody” The footballer was told as he identified self and was immediately left off the hook.

“They took him for a yahoo boy” “God save him” “they didn’t know he is a super eagles player” were the comments that rented the air as the spectators dispersed from the drama that obviously ended in the “anti-climax” of an arrest not made.