Renowned Ghanaian YouTuber Wode maya battles with Togolese borders guards after he refused to pay a bribe of CFA 2000.
Africa’s most influential YouTuber who has taken it upon himself to change the negative narrative of Africa was in the news yesterday after a video of him battling to save his camera at the Togolese boarder because he refused to pay a bribe of about CFA 2000 thus ghc 42. In the video which wode maya posted it on his official Twitter handle, he was seen struggling with officers present at the boarder because they wanted to seize his camera after capturing a video of their bad actions.
Posting the video online generated a lot of comments with some users also sharing their experiences using the same boarder.
Below are a few of the comments gathered;
@epka wrote;
Is bad, I went to Togo for exchange program
and my team convinced me to join dem and
go by road, the worse day ever. Every check
point dey collected money from us.
horrible
@EyramMichael
The rot on Togo's boarder is gargantuan.
mine was passport without yellow fever card
in 2015 and I have to show them something
by flashing my American embassy ID
together with the boss of the gendamirie
complimentary card……power play ooh masa
@keminni
The nerve! To even hold your belongings not
because you broke any law but because you
won't pay bribe. How did this end?
@ali_dawuda
Bro you can cover my story. I was
arrested in Togo for nothing and kept in jail
for 5 days. I was transiting there to Ghana
from Europe. The asked me to pay 500$ i
refused to pay. They took my documents
from me and told me my documents from
Ukraine Was fake. They said I have never been to
Ukraine, and that I'm a liar I'm made all of
them in Nigeria. They denied me food and
water and made the mosquitoes deal with
me like I'm some terrorist. They follow me
with Guns when I'm even going to toilet.
I showed them all my documents I got from
Ukraine. My bank cards, my student ID my
resident permit, I open my school website
with my profile there.
I did everything Icould do this people will never understand. Finally, an ambassador has to step in, Immediately they Ghanaian consulate
came in they gave me all my documents
within 30 minutes. Togo is one of the
lawless country I have been. Even my ghost
will never go there again. Wicked people!
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