Lagos state police command has commenced a trial of its four police officers who allegedly extorted a sum of N1m from 3 corps members(NYSC) in Surulere, Lagos.
Recalled, that an X user named Oluyemi Fasipe shared this on his page https://x.com/yemiefash/status/1839377933917438314?s=46.
According to the Statement by Fasipe, It was deduced that the NYSC corp members were said to be driving along the Surulere Expressway when a group of police stopped them for stop and search, a controversy occurred between the police officers and the corp members, and their car was driven to the Area C police station where the police officers extorted the corps members.
Fasipe said: “Officers today, in Surulere extorted one million naira from three 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,”
Reacting to different videos, Fasipe stated, “According to the victims, the officer in mufti is the one who collected the money (their boss).”
In one of the videos documented by the corps member through a spy camera, one of the Police officers was heard demanding the driver’s license from the person who drove the car.
“I’m renewing it,” the corps member responded, bursting into a controversy as the policemen demanded a paper driver’s license.
However, the controversy escalated as the police officers ordered that the vehicle’s number plate be removed, and one of the policemen shouted, “If you do anyhow, I will molest you.”
Furthermore, one of the corps members that was extorted, said that the policemen collected N200,000 from two of them.
“They said I should log into my NYSC portal. While trying to log in, one snatched my phone. They started going through messages and pictures. They asked me where I got the money for a car. I told them it was my mum’s car. Then, they said I should give them N10 million.
“I said I didn’t have, but I could afford N50,000. They refused. I begged him as he was still searching for my phone. When he went through my account and saw N116,000, I told him I could give them N100,000 but he refused and said I should call people to send me money. He heard me talking to my girlfriend on the phone to send me N200,000. Fortunately, my family already knew I was with the police because I called my mummy immediately after the incident occurred, and she had called my girlfriend. So, when I asked my girlfriend for N200,000, she said she didn’t have it.
“They met about N200,000 on my other guy’s phone too and told him to send N100,000 to me. They said I should give him my ATM card to go and withdraw N200,000,” he said.
The corps member also spoke up that police compelled one of them to transfer his Bitcoin worth $842.
However reacting to the video, Lagos state police spokesperson, Hundeyin Benjamin, on his X page said that the officers involved have been identified and are under thorough investigations. https://x.com/benhundeyin/status/1839666640482361670?s=46
On Friday evening, he however said that the policemen’s trials had commenced.
