Nigerians Are Preys To Jozi SAPS
SAPS stands for South African Police Service (Department of Police). It is the national Police Force of the country South Africa. It was founded in 1995. As of 2015 there are total of one thousand one hundred and thirty eight (1,138) Police Stations in the whole of the country and there are provincial borders which means that each province has a provincial commissioner being appointed by the government.
SAPS headquarters is in the city of Pretoria (Tshwane), which is as well the administrative capital of South Africa and is in the same province with JOZI as Johannesburg is popularly called, Gauteng Province, but the province is the home of CORRUPT AND BRIBE police officers!It is really frustrating that the headquarters of South African Police Service is in the same province that has the highest crime in the country!
Jozi (Johannesburg) Police Officers are sincerely very corrupt and they are out to make money from the foreigners; Nigerians in particular! Capetown police officers are not really all saints but believe me when i say that they are not as corrupt as Johannesburg! Once Jozi police realize that you are a Nigerian and living in Capetown or just outside Jozi then you are automatically their MONEY BAG! They twist every word you said to make it look like a very "very very" big crime! They are ready to intimidate you with their uniform and always threaten you with "Do not force me to call in my colleagues!" They can even search you many times as far as you are a Nigerian! For the fact that you are a Nigerian they won't let you go without looking for any silly mistake to extort money from you!
Sincerely, now that all the Department Of Home Affairs in all the provinces have decided not to attend to Nigerians with asylum papers except the Department Of Home Affairs at Corner Eskia Mphahlele & Johannes Ramokhoasa Streets, Marabastad, Pretoria which insisted on attending to Nigerians only on Thursdays! It is a very good business opportunities to JOZI SAPS. Just imagine a police officer working from Wednesday evening till Thursday morning knowing too well that Nigerians will be going to Pretoria and they must first land at O. R. Tampo International Airport, Johannesburg or if you decided to take a road trip, your bus must first drop Jozi passengers! They will ask you for your papers knowing too well that maybe you are there to renew your paper and then threaten you with deportation if you do not grease their palms with few Rands at the spot! They will spot a Nigerian and quickly say "How far" to see if you will respond, immediately you responded you become a victim! They have no conscious! Some will even ask you to make use of your ATM card or you call any of brothers in Jozi to help you out!
I was in Pietermaritzburg; the capital of KwaZulu-Natal province with my family few weeks ago and it was a clean and quiet city! There you hardly see police officers on the road. After our few days stay we decided to take a road trip to Jozi and then from there to Capetown. We arrived Jozi very early in the morning, around 06:00 am but guess what, police were much at the bus station! All the passengers alighted from the bus without been asked "how are you?" but I was called on the side by two officers who demanded to know my nationality. After the whole argument and time wasted they asked me to do something for them! I gave them money to avoid "had i known" and we need to buy another bus ticket to Capetown. While in the bus waiting for the departure time, they kept on coming one after the other just to act like they were searching all the passengers in our bus. They searched us many times and found nothing but whenever they got close to me they would start acting funny and kept on asking me irrelevant question like where are you originally from?
Finally, the right authority must do something about the intimidation of Nigerians with uniform. It is not fair that we won't be free whenever we are in Jozi just because of Police though our papers are accurate. All the police in Jozi are not working! They are all after money. They don't care if you can provide what they ask or not. And they are truly greedy! They will simply tell you and i quote " I know you guys, Nigerians are all making money in our country!" You call it your country but you have to wait for a foreigner to make money in your country and then pay you homage or what? We are law abiding citizens and we always behave ourselves anywhere we are and truly respect our host countries but their lazy and greedy police officers just want to lazy around and then make money out of us! Let the right authority know that all those police officers at O. R. Tampo and Jozi bus station are just there for the sake of money they make not because they are dedicated to their job!
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SAPS headquarters is in the city of Pretoria (Tshwane), which is as well the administrative capital of South Africa and is in the same province with JOZI as Johannesburg is popularly called, Gauteng Province, but the province is the home of CORRUPT AND BRIBE police officers!It is really frustrating that the headquarters of South African Police Service is in the same province that has the highest crime in the country!
Jozi (Johannesburg) Police Officers are sincerely very corrupt and they are out to make money from the foreigners; Nigerians in particular! Capetown police officers are not really all saints but believe me when i say that they are not as corrupt as Johannesburg! Once Jozi police realize that you are a Nigerian and living in Capetown or just outside Jozi then you are automatically their MONEY BAG! They twist every word you said to make it look like a very "very very" big crime! They are ready to intimidate you with their uniform and always threaten you with "Do not force me to call in my colleagues!" They can even search you many times as far as you are a Nigerian! For the fact that you are a Nigerian they won't let you go without looking for any silly mistake to extort money from you!
Sincerely, now that all the Department Of Home Affairs in all the provinces have decided not to attend to Nigerians with asylum papers except the Department Of Home Affairs at Corner Eskia Mphahlele & Johannes Ramokhoasa Streets, Marabastad, Pretoria which insisted on attending to Nigerians only on Thursdays! It is a very good business opportunities to JOZI SAPS. Just imagine a police officer working from Wednesday evening till Thursday morning knowing too well that Nigerians will be going to Pretoria and they must first land at O. R. Tampo International Airport, Johannesburg or if you decided to take a road trip, your bus must first drop Jozi passengers! They will ask you for your papers knowing too well that maybe you are there to renew your paper and then threaten you with deportation if you do not grease their palms with few Rands at the spot! They will spot a Nigerian and quickly say "How far" to see if you will respond, immediately you responded you become a victim! They have no conscious! Some will even ask you to make use of your ATM card or you call any of brothers in Jozi to help you out!
I was in Pietermaritzburg; the capital of KwaZulu-Natal province with my family few weeks ago and it was a clean and quiet city! There you hardly see police officers on the road. After our few days stay we decided to take a road trip to Jozi and then from there to Capetown. We arrived Jozi very early in the morning, around 06:00 am but guess what, police were much at the bus station! All the passengers alighted from the bus without been asked "how are you?" but I was called on the side by two officers who demanded to know my nationality. After the whole argument and time wasted they asked me to do something for them! I gave them money to avoid "had i known" and we need to buy another bus ticket to Capetown. While in the bus waiting for the departure time, they kept on coming one after the other just to act like they were searching all the passengers in our bus. They searched us many times and found nothing but whenever they got close to me they would start acting funny and kept on asking me irrelevant question like where are you originally from?
Finally, the right authority must do something about the intimidation of Nigerians with uniform. It is not fair that we won't be free whenever we are in Jozi just because of Police though our papers are accurate. All the police in Jozi are not working! They are all after money. They don't care if you can provide what they ask or not. And they are truly greedy! They will simply tell you and i quote " I know you guys, Nigerians are all making money in our country!" You call it your country but you have to wait for a foreigner to make money in your country and then pay you homage or what? We are law abiding citizens and we always behave ourselves anywhere we are and truly respect our host countries but their lazy and greedy police officers just want to lazy around and then make money out of us! Let the right authority know that all those police officers at O. R. Tampo and Jozi bus station are just there for the sake of money they make not because they are dedicated to their job!
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