“Arrange dollars, give us dollars” - Police Officer Demand Dollars as Bribe In Lagos | PHOTO + VIDEO

A Nigerian police officer was caught on video asking a Nigerian-American and two Nigerians for dollars as bribe for alleged traffic offences. The incident went down in Egbeda, Lagos. The three-minute, 45 seconds video was secretly filmed by someone in the car.

“Arrange dollars. Give us dollars,” the policeman, who was alone while the encounter lasted, demanded. Watch video after the cut...

“I don’t have dollars. If we had got dollars that would have been fine. If we had dollars it would be cool. We only have naira,” the passenger who spoke with what can be described as an American accent, said.

The third passenger also tried in vain to dissuade the policeman from insisting on taking the bribe in dollars. One of the passengers,  on noticing his resolve to take bribe,  offered him a bribe of N700 which the policeman promptly rejected.

“This is N700. What is the value of N700? I need dollars. Let us go and change it (naira to dollars). Bring better thing. That one is no money. That one is not money,  I don tell you finish oo,” he said.