Hello Nairalanders,

Please help me make this viral. My younger brother called me to report the vigilantes in Oleh community where a campus of Delta State University is located. They extorted money from him because "he did not move with the receipt of his laptop." He's a 400L student of Civil Engineering and was going home from campus when this happened. The vigilante that did this refused to identify himself or their vigilante outfit. He also refused to speak on the phone with me when I called. I asked my brother to make this video of the vigilante man holding his laptop - a student's laptop and asking for money in return. I wonder the kind of ordeal they put students through everyday if they do this. Social media is now the voice of the voiceless. Please I implore you to post this so that people can call the vigilante boys to order. Students should be not harassed for moving with laptops. In fact, all students should have their laptops.

Besides, since when have vigilantes become police officers that check laptops and all that? Is there a constitutional provision for that? Please I want them to be called to order and this is the only way I know how.

This happened in front of BMD Restaurant by the former army checkpoint, right after the Law Faculty Gate.

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Around which time did this happen?
If late in the night no one even has to be a vigilante to question suspicious movements.
It's unfortunately the kind of times Buhari has turned Nigeria into.
They may have used it to extort your brother,but if you must be out late in the night,then you must safeguard yourself against such extortion by going along with means of identification and receipts of valuable items or at least verifiable proof of their ownership.

seborrhic:
Around which time did this happen?
If late in the night no one even has to be a vigilante to question suspicious movements.
It's unfortunately the kind of times Buhari has turned Nigeria into.
They may have used it to extort your brother,but if you must be out late in the night,then you must safeguard yourself against such extortion by going along with means of identification and receipts of valuable items or at least verifiable proof of their ownership.

Thanks for your comment. This happened around 9pm and my brother was returning from campus back home. Unfortunately he was extorted successfully and I don’t really care about the money now. But I want the awareness to be there because today it might be my brother and tomorrow it could be someone else’s. Who knows how many they extort but can’t do anything about it? They’re nothing but thieves and armed robbers disguised as vigilantes.

These local vigilantes are thieves. That was how they terrorized Abraka so many years ago because they were displaced.

There's nothing your brother can do now. Thank God he wasn't harmed. He should just be careful next time, Nigeria is a jungle and even if you identify this man, he would still be shielded because he is an indigene.

these vigilante are atimes mean