{"id":712622,"date":"2019-09-29T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T08:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/29\/nigerian-software-developer-recounts-how-he-was-unjustly-arreste\/"},"modified":"2019-09-29T08:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T08:05:04","slug":"nigerian-software-developer-recounts-how-he-was-unjustly-arreste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/29\/nigerian-software-developer-recounts-how-he-was-unjustly-arreste\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Software Developer Recounts How He Was Unjustly Arreste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_710863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-710863\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-710863\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/L.png\" alt=\"Toni Astro\" width=\"387\" height=\"492\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-710863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toni Astro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Nigerian software developer, @toniastro_ has taken to Twitter to recount how he wasdetained by some SARS officers on Saturday, in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>According to Toni, he was also asked to pay a bribe to free himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Outrage As SARS Officers Shoot Man Dead In Anambra (Video)<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">So yeah<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">, SARZ messed up my Saturday and I get to be locked up because I\u2019m a software developer. A thread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I grabbed a bike via one of the bike hailing service in Nigeria from Abiola gardens to Ketu. So I could get a BRT from there home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of his tweets below;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_710864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-710864\" style=\"width: 618px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-710864\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1-20.png\" alt=\"Sars tweet\" width=\"618\" height=\"439\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-710864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sars tweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_710865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-710865\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-710865\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2-16.png\" alt=\"Sars tweet\" width=\"598\" height=\"523\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-710865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sars tweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_710866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-710866\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-710866\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3-11.png\" alt=\"Sars tweet\" width=\"580\" height=\"510\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-710866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sars tweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-710867\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/4-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"516\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-710868\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/5-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"142\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Astro A Nigerian software developer, @toniastro_ has taken to Twitter to recount how he wasdetained by some SARS officers on Saturday, in Lagos. According to Toni, he was also asked to pay a bribe to free himself. Read Also:\u00a0Outrage As SARS Officers Shoot Man Dead In Anambra (Video) So yeah, SARZ messed up my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian Software Developer Recounts How He Was Unjustly Arreste - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/29\/nigerian-software-developer-recounts-how-he-was-unjustly-arreste\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigerian Software Developer Recounts How He Was Unjustly Arreste - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Toni Astro A Nigerian software developer, @toniastro_ has taken to Twitter to recount how he wasdetained by some SARS officers on Saturday, in Lagos. 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