SORO SOKE WEREY

Nkiru and Hope were heading home after a TGIF with their office mates that had run late into the night. Their car broke down and no one would stop to help, save for a police patrol van. No sooner were they in the station where they were supposed to wait safely until they could get someone to pick them than the story flipped that they were street workers and promptly put behind the counter, before they posted bail the next morning, both ladies had been groped and sexually harassed on multiple occasions.

 

Tunji was just back from completing his masters in one of the international schools and he was picked up from the airport by Bosun his former classmate at the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University. They were about exiting the Ikeja axis when they were accosted by men of the defunct SARS unit, whisked to an ATM and made to part away with thousands of Naira and some hard currency.

 

Hamza is a young entrepreneur at Sabo, but he was envied by his neighbour who bribed some police officers and roped him into some phoney ordeal that resulted in him being incarcerated and tortured for two weeks behind bars because he did not immediately give a counter bribe for the case to be squashed.

 

The above stories are fictional, but they are quite similar to all we have been reading all over Social Media for the last month. Now that the Judicial Panels have begun to sit in various states as mandated by the Prof. Yemi Osinbajo led National Economic Council, the time has come for all those with real evidences to step forward and SORO SOKE.

 

Simply putting the tales out across the internet is not enough, we must become bold to attend the live airings to ensure that the erring officers are brought to book while justice is served to all the victims especially those for whom compensation would be paid to their families as this should not just be about financial remuneration.