Six officers of the Lagos Police Command are being interrogated for allegedly extorting the sum of N100,000 from a young Nigerian. The victim, identified simply as Oluwagbadura, had narrated on his verified Twitter handle how the policemen collected the sum of N100,000 from him via POS.
He said that at about 2:45 p.m., some police officers stopped him at Soliki, Aguda, Lagos and conducted the usual search on him. Oluwagbadura alleged that at about 3:44 p.m., the officers escorted him to a POS and withdrew N100,000 of his hard earned money.
He said: “After the search and not finding anything on me, they proceeded to seize my phone and company laptop and tagged me a yahoo boy.
“My crime, they said, is that I do not have an ID card as a freelancer. They searched my phone. They called me a criminal for chatting with my friends on WhatsApp.
“They threatened to shoot and lock me up! Next, they took me to their station, just few metres away, then forced me to admit to being a criminal,” he said.
Oluwagbadura further said that he refused to admit committing any crime, stressing that the officers then asked him to write a statement and thereafter, signed papers to bail himself.
“I transferred N100,000 to the POS vendor, and then paid N2,000 for charges (which was screenshot.)”.
He said that there were six officers and one of them threatened to deal with him in cell and nothing would happen. He said some of them were in mufti, including the one who acted as their lead.
“All of these things happened at the Police divisional headquarters, Soliki Aguda. I need Justice and my money back, please,” he tweeted.
His tweets went viral and attracted the attention of the Police.
However, Lagos Police Command spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed that the men involved in the extortion have been identified and summoned to the headquarters in Ikeja.
He added that the N100,000 extorted from the victim has also been recovered and returned to him.
“Six policemen are involved in the matter. They have been summoned to the headquarters in Ikeja for interrogation. The money involved has been collected back for the owner,” he said.
Source: The Nation
