We should control our tongue at all time.

[SmartCharpa]

I was traveling from Port Harcourt to Bayelsa state yesterday afternoon, we go to a police check point and it was the Federal Sars men that stopped us. While they were doing their lawful duty of searching the vehicle and the passengers in it, a girl that was sitting behind me made a comment and the officer that was conducting the search heard her loud and clear. She said '' You people are just wasting our time, if it were the bad boys terrorizing the region you people won't stop them''. The Sars man got angry and asked the girl to come down from the vehicle, the girl came down and she was taken into their custody for further questioning about her comment. The officer asked the driver to carry the rest of the passenger and continue with the journey. Some passengers pleaded with the officer to let the girl go but they refused, they said the girl must show them evidence where she saw them not stopping bad boys. They accused the girl of working with bad boys. The girl was detained while we continued with our journey.
The girl wouldn't have found herself in that situation if she had kept quiet without saying a word.
we should learn how to control our tongue at all time. Don't say unguided words when in public place.
Don't say anything when your opinion is not sought after in a public place because you don't know who is who.     
I feel like sharing this so that we can avoid some unnecessary problems in our lives.

Some people mouth no dey ever stay one place, anything wey dey see dey most talk am, even if e no concern them, if they say mind your business body go dey pepper dem to talk anything they see. If no be say we no dey respect forces for naija we dey take everything as cruise say them no care about the youth safety. They deserve their respect as Nigerian forces, but as things they happen to Nigeria youths that is why we are taking their job for granted. As you speaked she got herself into another trouble, if she remain silent at that moment nothing would have happened to her, she can't complete her journey with you guys that day. No be say na she be the only passenger in that motor but she see say she sabi talk pass all una.

That is why in some places if they see say person remain quiet, they will thinking that you too dey fear, but all is for the peace, for this country if you do over sabi e no dey ever favor at all, if it does not concern you remain calm, na when you chook mouth for person matter, you go cause trouble to yourself.

[sokani]

She said '' You people are just wasting our time, if it were the bad boys terrorizing the region you people won't stop them''. The Sars man got angry and asked the girl to come down from the vehicle, the girl came down and she was taken into their custody for further questioning about her comment. The officer asked the driver to carry the rest of the passenger and continue with the journey. Some passengers pleaded with the officer to let the girl go but they refused, they said the girl must show them evidence where she saw them not stopping bad boys. They accused the girl of working with bad boys. The girl was detained while we continued with our journey.

Wetin she talk no make sense. We know say Nigerian police dey jonse and how dem dey run when the main casala set but for her to openly say that kind thing to the hearing of the police men dey disrespectful. Every harsh treatment wey dem give her, she deserve am and I want believe say after that experience, she no go cap carelessly again anytime wey she see them. Even for our day to day lives, e get sometimes wey an issue go want come up and na something wey no suppose escalate, but because the person no sabi yan or control himself, naso him go use wrong choice of words fuel the whole situation. Our words fit put us for trouble, and at all times make we dey choose wetin we dey yan.

[Stable090]

Basically what the girl said concerning police force in nigeria is official act to police people, because sometimes I do think if police collaborate with criminal in some certain act

We sabi how police dey run their thing for dis country, but e no come mean say make u dey talk anyhow as u dey check point, if you go talk something like that u suppose done commot for check point. If you dey even travel self, e better make u just keep quiet for car, just dey mind ur business, you know suppose dey talk anyhow for inside car, u no sabi d kin people wey dey inside d car, dey get some sensitive things wey u no suppose dey talk inside. Anything wey u no say fit cause problem, avoid to  dey talk am inside car. Even politics mattar, e better if you dey journey make u no dey talk about am, even if another person carry d mattar come, just dey low key dey observe no put mouth.

Police will relaxed and wasted some time and by then the criminals has already operated before you will see appearance of police,

I don follow one police man wey I sabi talk about dis mattar before, and from d response wey him give me I felt bad. D man talk say guns wey most of those criminals dey use better pass their own, him say sometime if their gun don hot e go dey misbehave, and before dey commot for station, dem dey count bullet give them. All those criminals wey be say na new guns dem dey use with unlimited bullet, how u wan take fight people like that. D police man talk say if dem dey exchange bullet with d criminals, if d bullets wey dem give dem for station don finish, na die remain be that ooo.

[adultcrypto]

The tongue is one of the smallest part of the body yet so powerful. The earlier people understand the power of the tongue, the better. No wonder even God admonished us to be "fast to hear but slow to speak" which means we should check the consequences of our spoken words before letting them out.

In a society where there is law and order and citizens rights respected, even though what she said was bad and demoralizing to our security forces, she was not supposed to be arrested and detained rather, there should be a way to make her substantiate her claims. Two wrongs can never male a right.

[Forever101]

This is nothing but lawlessness, there should be freedom of speech and they can also be challenged by citizens for noth doing their job as suppose. Some of the citizens have experience where some police do have pos machine with them Incase they catch any yahoo boy, they can get their own share from them.
As for the girl, she is rude and she has pass wrong judgement without knowing why they stopped them. The girl ought to know that there is a high level of insecurity in Nigeria and it is a wise thing for security to be on task. Some weeks ago , I open a thread in respect to security and I will say big thanks to police and vigilante effort to combat the kidnappers and drive them away from our territory, thanks to God who granted them this power and grace

[Jegileman]

I don follow one police man wey I sabi talk about dis mattar before, and from d response wey him give me I felt bad. D man talk say guns wey most of those criminals dey use better pass their own, him say sometime if their gun don hot e go dey misbehave, and before dey commot for station, dem dey count bullet give them. All those criminals wey be say na new guns dem dey use with unlimited bullet, how u wan take fight people like that. D police man talk say if dem dey exchange bullet with d criminals, if d bullets wey dem give dem for station don finish, na die remain be that ooo.

Dis one na serious matter be dat oo, we go stop dey judge book by the cover now. Me never know say dem strict with police like dis when dey come to going out for duty to secure the people in the country. If na wetin really dey happen be dis, den where d insecurity wey we say we dey fight for dey now. When d people wey go help us fight too dey fear make dem no come kpai dem, our own lives go be like joke for their sides be dat now, dem fit do anything dem like for town since dem know say the people wey go stop dem no dey fully equipped like dem to fight dem. But dis matter really surprise me still o, you dey sure say na so dis matter still be till now and dem neva rectify am by now. For God’s sake, we dey 21st century, wetin dey sup with our country na.

In a society where there is law and order and citizens rights respected, even though what she said was bad and demoralizing to our security forces, she was not supposed to be arrested and detained rather, there should be a way to make her substantiate her claims. Two wrongs can never male a right.

Naso, two wrongs no fit make any right but e be like say na d condition wey dos officers dey dat night na him make dem react like dat to her. E for better as dem interrogate her come show her small pepper make dem allow her follow d rest passengers go, but as dem no do like dat, e mean say dem really mean d girl and dem go deal with her very well be that. But my fear with all dis road side security personnel’s na impersonation. I just pray say she no fall into the wrong hands as dem leave am come dey go their thing. Country hard, everybody dey vex base on say dem dey face one or two daily, but dat one no mean say make we dey run our mouths anyhow.

[rachael9385]

However, learning how to control our tongue is an important thing people should understand because 1, I believe that there is power in the tongue and we shouldn't use our tongue to say things the wrong way. 2, our tongue is not meant to abuse those that are above us or below us but to respect them. In the story that the op said, the girl way to blamed because she want the one the police officer were talking to at first, but she just wan show her self and others way they inside the vehicle say she Sabi talk or say she no get respect, although, watin dey girl talk nah one of the things way some of this our Nigerian police them dey do but the thing we supposed to know be say at that time way we dey for there areas we no supposed to talk against them because them fit do the on do and if pipo ask them go put lies for the person head,,,,, even if say pipo they the place way the thing happened before any of them go try to rescue the victim,,, by then the person done recive enough beatings.

[Makus]

To learn how to talk na one thing wey we no suppose to joke with, because this same tongue fit commit you and still put you for problem if you no control your self, sometimes people go say we get freedom of speech, yes we get freedom of speech but that one no mean say your freedom of speech na to take talk wattin you no get evidence for, Because that one fit put you go big problem. Normally we dey very guilty of saying our police dem nor dey do their work properly, but to go tell police man for em duty post wey beta sun dey mama em head say em dey allow bad boy pass, that na very big courage wey that girl get, but las las we know say na money go end that matter nothing else. But apart from this situation small talk wey you fit talk fit make your boss fire you for work, or make lecturer give you CO, for you to know how the power of the tongue dey, even the bible emphasize on the power of your tongue.
So to sabi talk matters a lot but this our new generation children dem nor dey sabi talk and e dey pain me, dem dey feel like say na everything be money.

[Spaceman1000$]

I was traveling from Port Harcourt to Bayelsa state yesterday afternoon, we go to a police check point and it was the Federal Sars men that stopped us. While they were doing their lawful duty of searching the vehicle and the passengers in it, a girl that was sitting behind me made a comment and the officer that was conducting the search heard her loud and clear. She said '' You people are just wasting our time, if it were the bad boys terrorizing the region you people won't stop them''. The Sars man got angry and asked the girl to come down from the vehicle, the girl came down and she was taken into their custody for further questioning about her comment. The officer asked the driver to carry the rest of the passenger and continue with the journey. Some passengers pleaded with the officer to let the girl go but they refused, they said the girl must show them evidence where she saw them not stopping bad boys. They accused the girl of working with bad boys. The girl was detained while we continued with our journey.
The girl wouldn't have found herself in that situation if she had kept quiet without saying a word.
we should learn how to control our tongue at all time. Don't say unguided words when in public place.
Don't say anything when your opinion is not sought after in a public place because you don't know who is who.     
I feel like sharing this so that we can avoid some unnecessary problems in our lives.

She was reckless with her tongue, no matter the fact that, we are as country are experiencing some form of lawlessness, we should try and respect those of them that are policing us, it's not easy to put your life on the line for the safety of others, if she's is charged to court, she can either go to jail or pay a fine for misguided statement against constituted authorities.

[uchegod-21]

We Nigerians carry freedom of speech for head and the interesting thing be say we dey abuse am. This na one common sickness majority of us dey face for Nigeria. We no know how to talk, when to talk and the right time to talk some things. Apart from the girl for this case, many of us  too wey dey talk say wetin this girl talk no good still dey guilty of this  very offence Of putting mouth for wetin fit cause us wahala.

Plenty bad things dey happen for this our country,  we no know who be who again.  Small talk wey you talk now fit cause one big kasala, this one na the main reason why we suppose dey think first of the possible implications of wetin we wan talk before we voice am out.

[Agbamoni]

I was traveling from Port Harcourt to Bayelsa state yesterday afternoon, we go to a police check point and it was the Federal Sars men that stopped us. While they were doing their lawful duty of searching the vehicle and the passengers in it, a girl that was sitting behind me made a comment and the officer that was conducting the search heard her loud and clear. She said '' You people are just wasting our time, if it were the bad boys terrorizing the region you people won't stop them''. The Sars man got angry and asked the girl to come down from the vehicle, the girl came down and she was taken into their custody for further questioning about her comment. The officer asked the driver to carry the rest of the passenger and continue with the journey. Some passengers pleaded with the officer to let the girl go but they refused, they said the girl must show them evidence where she saw them not stopping bad boys. They accused the girl of working with bad boys. The girl was detained while we continued with our journey.
The girl wouldn't have found herself in that situation if she had kept quiet without saying a word.
we should learn how to control our tongue at all time. Don't say unguided words when in public place.
Don't say anything when your opinion is not sought after in a public place because you don't know who is who.     
I feel like sharing this so that we can avoid some unnecessary problems in our lives.

Knowing full well that the officer has the right to stop and search every vehicle they come across. That is their duty, and they are implementing i. The girl was totally wrong for saying such because of a simple search. But let's come back to the other side of the matter. It seems we don't have the right anymore to speak to the police. But they said they are our best friend. We are expected to express our emotions towards them, but it is different in our country. I don't like comparing our country with other country but am really fed up with a lot of things going on.

I remembered sharing my experiences of how they stole our generator at home and the thief was caught. When the Police came, we told them that we don't want to escalate the matter that the boy should just pay the money for the Generator because we have bought another one and he can go They insisted that they will take the boy to the station so that he can learn some lesson for some time. I never knew their intention was to find a way to get money. On reaching there they said we need to sign, and signing is 1k, fuel fee and all the rest. We spent almost 10k before leaving the station, now who is the main thief?

[Peter Faith]

The thing be say make we dey try respect higher authorities...at least no be new thing to us as Nigerians say at any point where uniform men dey they must check the passers by especially traveling vehicles. There is no problem in allowing them search ..weda them no dey gree check bad boys or not it's non of our business,, she dey wrong Sha ...it's a problem she should have avoided,,to me sef na Sabi Sabi put her for that wahala..at least others go learn

[target]

So why is it that all of a sudden the girl was accused as among the bad guys and had to be detained? 
It's a lot worse to do that than what she just said. Remember that it is supposed to be "Innocent until proven guilty" and not the other way around.
That was just a comment, what happened to the liberte de parole.

[Hewlet]

we should learn how to control our tongue at all time. Don't say unguided words when in public place.

this is a very serious matter that I learned in a very hard way, So let me share my experience regarding this.
During my finals in school I had a project supervisor that disturbed us seriously on the amount of money we should pay for my project work. We paid paid the amount he told us and when we finished the the whole project work, a day to our submission he came up with this random 15k that we should pay before ever signing our work. We begged him but he refused and that led us not to do our internal defence. That made me very angry at him and at several occasion  I will make unguided statement behind his back about how wicked the man his and on how he treated us very bad. The department latter allowed us to joined in the final defense and while we where waiting for out turn for the defence, conversation came up and I repeated the same statement that he is a bad man man and I made statement like " that man chop our money wetin no good" after I made that statement I looked behind me and saw that he was standing just next to me. I was shocked and speechless and even had to run away because I didn't know how to react at that moment and that was when my sense cane back to me that I was being too unguided with how I use my thong.  Till date I still have some things I needed him to help me with but because of what I said, I I don't even know how to approach him anymore.

I know once the thought gets to the mind, it becomes very difficult not to utter it out but we should be very careful on what we say in the public because the walls truly have ears.

[JayJuanGee]

we should learn how to control our tongue at all time. Don't say unguided words when in public place.

this is a very serious matter that I learned in a very hard way, So let me share my experience regarding this.
During my finals in school I had a project supervisor that disturbed us seriously on the amount of money we should pay for my project work. We paid paid the amount he told us and when we finished the the whole project work, a day to our submission he came up with this random 15k that we should pay before ever signing our work. We begged him but he refused and that led us not to do our internal defence. That made me very angry at him and at several occasion  I will make unguided statement behind his back about how wicked the man his and on how he treated us very bad. The department latter allowed us to joined in the final defense and while we where waiting for out turn for the defence, conversation came up and I repeated the same statement that he is a bad man man and I made statement like " that man chop our money wetin no good" after I made that statement I looked behind me and saw that he was standing just next to me. I was shocked and speechless and even had to run away because I didn't know how to react at that moment and that was when my sense cane back to me that I was being too unguided with how I use my thong.  Till date I still have some things I needed him to help me with but because of what I said, I I don't even know how to approach him anymore.

I know once the thought gets to the mind, it becomes very difficult not to utter it out but we should be very careful on what we say in the public because the walls truly have ears.

I have some troubles with the framing of this topic because it seems that there are a variety of situations in which authority could end up getting abused and yeah of course, I don't likely know enough about Nigeria, yet people have natural rights to speak out and stand up to authority (but run the risk of getting quashed in some systems.. sometimes by other people helping the authorities and sometimes by the authorities), and people also have rights to be skeptical of authority even if they might or might not be able to speak out. 

I also have troubles with the idea that generally speaking that people have to control their tongue, even though we do likely build up some of these ideas based on where we are living, and in that regard, there may well be circumstances in which danger comes to police officers if they do not make sure that the people in a crowd kind of a situation do not end up rebelling up against them while they are doing their supposedly official search and/or patrol duties.. and hopefully at the same time, they end up being accountable to higher authorities within their ranks if they go beyond certain levels of acceptable behavior... 

Ultimately the police officers are supposed to be carrying out the public good and not just their own good, but yeah we know that police systems will some times have several levels of corruption so it can be difficult for superiors to hold lower level officers corrupt if some of the superiors are also corrupt, so in the context of a search, it could become quite difficult to challenge any officers when they are in the middle of carrying out their official duties because they are not going to want to increase their own levels of danger by allowing the crowd to mass up against them, and during such situations, there maybe is not as much ability to speak out freely because of the balancing of the officer's need to carry out their duties and to portray themselves as legitimately exercising authority and they also want to stay safe too.

Frequently, we are not very likely to know all the circumstances of any search, except maybe what the officer says and if there might have been some context or some other similar searches, and if we just presume all searches are not just and/or legitimate then maybe we are thinking like the girl and we want to say something in the middle and while the search is taking place, but then at that time, we may well end up interfering with the officer's abilities to carry out their official search duties whether it may have been a just and fair search or not.

As far as the police's ability to merit out their own punishment towards the girl, those kinds of behaviors will vary from location to location, and surely some police officers are not going to engage in those kinds of behaviors to met out personal justice or even to be self-serving because they have internal ideas of right and wrong in regards to carrying out their official duties, but the extent to which some officers might decide to engage in those kinds of behaviors of either metting out their own personal versions of justice or receiving benefits from the carrying out of their official duties might depend partially upon the likelihood that they will end up getting caught and/or punished for such behaviors...and perhaps it also might depend partially if their colleagues are engaging in such behaviors and getting away with such behaviors, then they may well be more willing to do what many of the other officers are doing in the same kinds of situations.  The upper echelon of officers might even allow a certain level of those kinds of personal and corrupt behaviors to happen with their officers, even though the conduct might not be official and yet it could gain some semi-official status if the higher up officers are allowing self-serving metting out of justice to take place..

[Gozie51]

misguided statements should be avoided in this country now as body dey pepper almost everybody now with the condition of the country, talk less of uniformed men wey no get joy right from the beginning.

Omo notwithstanding say the girl speak out within dey all of us mind including una wey dey that moto, because una self no like as the police people take dey delay una movement as e be say if dem see bad people dem no go do their job as dem dey do for innocent vehicle and people. Wetin that girl talk na passive word wey some police people no go react like that because dem too sabi say na true.

Me I dey tink say na just intimidation as usual. Okay if that girl sabi one small Navy officer now, you wan tell me say one small call no go cause wahala for deir head?

My brother las las, na number dem want still collect and begin run package with the babe but dem no wan make una sabi how e dey go.

Those people stupid no be small. And na those uniform men fit savage the country out of these politicians wey don impoverish this country. Them no dey see how other uniform men dey take chase out their ogas for office wey say dem be president.

Na dem go restart this country because dat na wetin the country need.

[Samlucky O]

I was traveling from Port Harcourt to Bayelsa state yesterday afternoon, we go to a police check point and it was the Federal Sars men that stopped us. While they were doing their lawful duty of searching the vehicle and the passengers in it, a girl that was sitting behind me made a comment and the officer that was conducting the search heard her loud and clear. She said '' You people are just wasting our time, if it were the bad boys terrorizing the region you people won't stop them''. The Sars man got angry and asked the girl to come down from the vehicle, the girl came down and she was taken into their custody for further questioning about her comment. The officer asked the driver to carry the rest of the passenger and continue with the journey. Some passengers pleaded with the officer to let the girl go but they refused, they said the girl must show them evidence where she saw them not stopping bad boys. They accused the girl of working with bad boys. The girl was detained while we continued with our journey.
The girl wouldn't have found herself in that situation if she had kept quiet without saying a word.
we should learn how to control our tongue at all time. Don't say unguided words when in public place.
Don't say anything when your opinion is not sought after in a public place because you don't know who is who.    
I feel like sharing this so that we can avoid some unnecessary problems in our lives.

In as much as Nigeria is a curupt country does not mean that one must have to say it in public, because what you say while at home and what you said outside are two different things because it might lead you into trouble.

The worst thing that can trigger a force man to do such thing, is by indirectly telling him to his face, that his not compitent to handle criminal case, but always claiming hard to Normal citizens.

In as much as the military sector is concerned there are force men that are doing there job perfectly but the reputation of the bad once have engloved the innocent ones. Emagine Making such statement in the present of someone who has been fighting for the right of the citizens, you would definitely get fucked up. So we should always mind our words or however ways control our tounge in other not to put ourselves hoddles.

[Maestro75]

Wetin that girl talk na the pure truth and na the thing weh deh everybody mind anytime weh we see checkpoints. But na to talk am out be the problem because of the guns weh those men deh carry. The girl allowed her mouth to run fast weh nobody send am at that point. She for wait make the motor move small then she go begin talk. Na frustration make many of us deh react to police that way. Them know how to extort and intimidate the masses but the real criminals be them friends.

[Nheer]

She said '' You people are just wasting our time, if it were the bad boys terrorizing the region you people won't stop them''. The Sars man got angry and asked the girl to come down from the vehicle, the girl came down and she was taken into their custody for further questioning about her comment. The officer asked the driver to carry the rest of the passenger and continue with the journey. Some passengers pleaded with the officer to let the girl go but they refused, they said the girl must show them evidence where she saw them not stopping bad boys. They accused the girl of working with bad boys. The girl was detained while we continued with our journey.

Her statement was bad and it is an insult to any uniform personnel more like she meant they don’t know their job and they are not doing their work properly. It’s really disrespectful and if she should put herself in their shoes and someone make such statements to her how would she feel? Before we utter any statement we need to thoroughly think of how people will perceive it first, if it will hurt anyone then we shouldn’t say them to avoid problems like this.

The girl wouldn't have found herself in that situation if she had kept quiet without saying a word.
we should learn how to control our tongue at all time. Don't say unguided words when in public place.
Don't say anything when your opinion is not sought after in a public place because you don't know who is who.     
I feel like sharing this so that we can avoid some unnecessary problems in our lives.

It serves her right, i have noticed this kinda things with girls they talk too much and they always feel they can talk about anything they like and I noticed again they don’t usually respect military personnels even though they are the ones that risk their lives to protect us. I have seen and heard couple of times where women talk bad about them and most of them are quite lucky not to be caught so this would probably serve as a lesson to others. No matter the position we find ourselves we should know how to use our tongue even though we feel we are superior to those around us, words hurts more and especially in a public place you will never know who some people are until you step on them so it’s better to mind your business to avoid unnecessary wahala.

[gabbie2010]

I was traveling from Port Harcourt to Bayelsa state yesterday afternoon, we go to a police check point and it was the Federal Sars men that stopped us. While they were doing their lawful duty of searching the vehicle and the passengers in it, a girl that was sitting behind me made a comment and the officer that was conducting the search heard her loud and clear. She said '' You people are just wasting our time, if it were the bad boys terrorizing the region you people won't stop them''. The Sars man got angry and asked the girl to come down from the vehicle, the girl came down and she was taken into their custody for further questioning about her comment. The officer asked the driver to carry the rest of the passenger and continue with the journey. Some passengers pleaded with the officer to let the girl go but they refused, they said the girl must show them evidence where she saw them not stopping bad boys. They accused the girl of working with bad boys. The girl was detained while we continued with our journey.
The girl wouldn't have found herself in that situation if she had kept quiet without saying a word.
we should learn how to control our tongue at all time. Don't say unguided words when in public place.
Don't say anything when your opinion is not sought after in a public place because you don't know who is who.     
I feel like sharing this so that we can avoid some unnecessary problems in our lives.

She was reckless with her tongue, no matter the fact that, we are as country are experiencing some form of lawlessness, we should try and respect those of them that are policing us, it's not easy to put your life on the line for the safety of others, if she's is charged to court, she can either go to jail or pay a fine for misguided statement against constituted authorities.

Some people are naturally born with verbal diarrhoea especially ladies they talk recklessly irrespective of where they are, I have met few of them like the lady mentioned by the OP whose recklessness of her tongue had put her into trouble, whenever law enforcement agents are performing their legal duties it is not the responsibility of any civilian to question them or make a derogatory remark to them especially when they are performing "Stop and Search" infact the lady was very lucky that it was not some military men that stopped her it would have brutal because she would be subjected to some severe punishment instantly and at the end she might never remain the same health wise infact she would admitted straight to the hospital.