It is one thing for Bitcoin to be legal, which I admit, and it is another thing for everyone, including the law enforcement agencies to recognized that legality. I've heard series of cases where people are being manhandled for just having a cex app on a mobile phone.
This can not be from EFCC but I know that Nigeria Police can do something like that. They will think someone is a Yahoo boy and they will think they are using cryptocurrencies.
Did you know that it is even illegal for a police to just
stop someone and be searching
someoneperson's phone in Nigeria except during legal investigation? But we are in Nigeria where many people will misuse their power and not obey the law. Some citizens also do not know their right. No police will just come and search my phone, I can not unlock the phone except they took me to their station and after I see and speak to my lawyer. Yet they will see many crypto exchanges there but I committed no crime.
I have been to many places, I have seen police on the road stopped me times without number, but none has ever told me to open my phone. It was very common when people protested against SARS (I mean end SARS)
toand, and we all know that SARS officials were misusing their power and getting hold of innocents and become the scammers to people by misusing their power. But something like that has significantly reduced now.
As for EFCC, they search phone during investigation to know if someone has committed crime and not about the person using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.