BBNaija’s BamBam recounts her experience with police officer who stopped her for a bribe

• BamBam emphasized that citizens should feel secure, rather than uneasy, around police officers.

Olawunmi-Adenibuyan, known as BamBam from BBNaija, has shared her unsettling experience with a Nigerian police officer who stopped her for money.

On the X platform, she described how she was “coerced into giving something” when the officer, whom she found “inappropriate and aggressive,” requested her to show him “love.”

She wrote: “Just wrapped up from a movie set, heading home, and Nigerian police stopped us for no reason—forced us to step down only to start begging for money. What kind of nonsense is this? If we refused, what would they have done?

“He was a bit inappropriate and forceful. I came down, greeted him, he asked if I was okay, I said I’m fine just tired. He said “show me love now” he could have asked from the car window, but my assistant and I were down, we couldn’t drive off so I was forced to give something.

“We shouldn’t see the police and feel uncomfortable but safe. Asking and demanding are two different things. Feeling entitled about your money and tipping because they were respectful and actually doing their job are two different things.”