4 policemen land in trouble for extorting N1 million from corpers in Lagos
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Four Nigerian policemen have landed in trouble for allegedly being involved in the extortion of N1 million from three National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in Surulere, Lagos State on Thursday, September 26, 2027.
It was gathered that the officers are from Kafaru Oluwole Tinubu House, Area C Police Command, Surulere, Lagos State. They are accused of harassing the corps members during a stop-and-search operation.
In videos posted on X by one Oluyemi Fasipe on Thursday evening, a police officer is seen asking for the car documents of the vehicle’s occupants while threatening them with a gun.
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Fásípè (@YemieFash) wrote, “Dear @BenHundeyin, Your officers today in Surulere extorted 1 million naira from 3 corps members. They were threatened with firearms, kidnapped, and taken to the KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU HOUSE AREA C POLICE COMMAND of the @LagosPoliceNG where they were robbed. Their offense was the absence of a physical copy of a driver’s license. This is evil.”
In one of the videos, an officer is also heard saying, “This one is fighting me, I give myself to gun, somebody give me gun, carry me come here and you are putting hand on me like this.”
The officers, however, instructed someone to remove the car owner’s license plate.
One of the officers said, “If you do anyhow, I will molest you. What do you mean?”
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A police officer got into the car and instructed the corps members not to make any calls. When the corps members explained that they needed to inform their relatives about the situation, the officer insisted they put their phones away, threatening to write a statement against them if they did not comply.
The officer said, “If you reach the station, you make any call, me I’m telling you now, this is what we always do for our station, you don’t make call now, you go put your phone inside your pocket first.”
One of the corps members said, “If I am in the car with you, it means I cannot make the call, I cannot call anybody, nobody has to know where I am.
“But I need to call people they need to know where I’m going to, my loved ones.”
The officer said, “Put your phone inside your pocket because this is what I am going to give you statement to make.”
One of the corps members, who was driving, asked, “Why are we making statements? You said we were going there to photocopy.”
Dear @BenHundeyin ,
Your officers today in Surulere extorted 1 million naira from 3 corps members. They were threatened with firearms, kidnapped, and taken to the KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU HOUSE AREA C POLICE COMMAND of the @LagosPoliceNG where they were robbed. Their offense was… pic.twitter.com/8nJeD0iIFq
— Olúyẹmí Fásípè AICMC (@YemieFash) September 26, 2024
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Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Command has summoned four officers who were accused of extorting three (3) Corps members in the state.
The State Police Command Spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin disclosed this in a short post on his x handle while reacting to the report and video evidence of the officers caught on camera.
Hundeyin said; “The men have been summoned and their trial has commenced.
“We urge the complainants to visit the Complaint Response Unit at the State Headquarters to testify at the ongoing trial.”
The men have been summoned and their trial has commenced.
We urge the complainants to visit the Complaint Response Unit at the State Headquarters to testify at the ongoing trial. https://t.co/yu6Nnm69AP pic.twitter.com/n1Hs2yraIf
— SP Benjamin Hundeyin (@BenHundeyin) September 27, 2024
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