When the driver protests and says he can only afford to pay 2,000 naira, the officer then says he should pay 13,000 naira.
The driver continues to plead with the officer, who says he is not working alone and threatens to bring the driver to the station. The officer then appears to make a phone call to discuss the matter with his colleagues.
According to Mba, the officer did not actually make a phone call and was only trying to threaten the driver.
It is a familiar scene for drivers in Nigeria and one that would usually go unnoticed if not for the video that prompted social media outrage.
A 2010 report by Human Rights Watch described a deeply corrupt police force in Nigeria, where extortion and bribery had become institutionalised and junior officers paid up the chain of command to their superiors.
The current police administration, which was not in charge at the time of the 2010 report, argues that it is working to end such practices.
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