NOWADAYS, every part of our lives' activities are showcased
online and so was the recent action involving a Police Officer, who was
demanding bribe from a motorist for whatever reason and ended up as a social
media viral episode, especially on the YouTube.
For the avoidance of doubt the incident led to the sacking
of the Police Sergeant Christopher Omeleze and barely a week after, an amateur
video of a Police woman demanding for a N100 bribe from commercial motorist
went viral on YouTube.
DigitalSENSE Business News gathered that as at the time of
filing this report, the Police woman caught on tape demanding N100 bribe,
reportedly in custody of the Lagos State Police command.
The act of videoing corruptive tendencies as this, even by
motorists or their passengers is welcomed and a good development which shows
that Nigerians are putting into good use the features of the prevalent
smartphones.
This is coming as the Lagos State Police Command arrested a
medical representative, Mr. Gregory Muonylilo, for allegedly video recording
the policemen who were arresting a commercial motorcyclist with his mobile
phone at the Amuwo Odofin area of the state by policemen attached to Area E
Command.
Citizens must be wary bearing in mind that since the
dismissal of a police sergeant, Chris Omeleze, who was caught on camera
demanding bribe from a motorist, policemen are likely to become paranoid about
who is recording their activities and obviously for what.
Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide was reportedly
quoted as denying claims that the policemen were harassing the okada rider, but
rather doing their official job. “The policemen were on legal duty and they had
apprehended an okada rider for riding on a restricted route. I spoke to the man
who was arrested and he never told me that the policemen were asking for bribe
from the commercial motorcyclist they were trying to arrest. The man was
recording and we do not know his motive.”
A smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile operating
system, with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than a feature
or legacy phone. Feature or legacy phones are usually referred to those that
have rigid outlook in its operational standards as well as lack of
interoperability difficulties.
The first smartphones combined the functions of a Personal
Digital Assistant (PDA), with a mobile phone. Later models added the functionality
of portable media players, low-end compact digital cameras, pocket video
cameras, and Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation units to form one
multi-use device.
Experts says that GPS is a space-based satellite navigation
system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions,
anywhere on or near the earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to
four or more GPS satellites.
However, many modern
smartphones come with high-resolution touch screens and web browsers that
display standard web pages as well as mobile-optimized sites, in addition to
High-speed data access provided by Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) and mobile
broadband.
In recent years, mostly in the last five years, the rapid
developments of mobile device applications markets and of mobile commerce have
been drivers of smartphone adoption. For instance, the mobile Operating Systems
(OS) used by modern smartphones include Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS, Nokia’s
Symbian, RIM’s BlackBerry OS, Samsung’s Bada, Microsoft’s Windows Phone,
Hewlett-Packard’s webOS, and embedded Linux distributions such as Maemo and
MeeGo. A few other upcoming operating systems are Mozilla’s Firefox OS,
Canonical Ltd’s Ubuntu Phone, and Tizen.
Worldwide sales of smartphones exceeded those of feature or
legacy phones in early 2013. As of July 18, 2013, 90 per cent of global handset
sales are attributed to the purchase of iPhone and Android smartphones.
It is important that those who indulge in recording with
their mobile phones or other mobile devices should be tactful or desist from
such as this may land them into trouble and could also bring fame to them. The
caution here is safety and staying out of trouble.
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