Mistaken Identity: Police Arrests and tortures fast rising Comedian, Shakara

– What happens when one is beaten and
arrested by the police only for them to find
out that you are not the criminal they are
after?
– This is probably what Warri Based
comedian Shakara will be wondering
– Veteran comedian Ali Baba narrated an
experience Shakara had with the men in
blue

There are a few things worse than being
arrested and beaten by policemen. But what
happens when one suffers such trauma in a
case of mistaken identity?

This is exactly what fast rising comedian
Shakara D 1 st experienced as narrated by
veteran comedian Ali Baba.

Shakara was beaten, assaulted and arrested
from his house in Warri in the presence of
his wife and other family members by
policemen. He was also transported to
Lagos in his boxer shorts. All for a crime he
did not commit. Instead, he went through all
that just because he shared a similar phone
number with a criminal.

Read Ali Baba’s account of what happened
below:

“The committee is sitting now at the National
Assembly in the case of Shakara, an Mc and
comedian who, was assaulted, beaten and
arrested from his house in Warri in the
presence of his wife, his co tenants, his father
and his friends, for an alleged crime, and
brought all the way to Lagos by Road like a
common thief, in his boxers. Only for the
police to realize it was a case of mistaken
identity. The phone number of the person they
were looking for had a digit different from his.
The police had contacted the Network provider
with the phone number, the network then gave
them his address, to enable them track the
suspect. Isn’t that the problem with our
agencies? Lack of proper and thorough
investigation. Now na beg them dey beg… one
small thing them for don shoot the innocent
boy leg… meanwhile the story in Warri is that
he was arrested for armed robbery and
kidnapping. Who wan call am for work again?”

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