Despite Suspending Divisional Police Officer Over N100,000 Extortion By Subordinates, Nigeria Police Fail To Refund Victim

The Nigeria Police Force has not refunded the N100,000 its personnel at the Lagos State Command extorted from a phone dealer labelled as a fraudster despite the suspension of a Divisional Police Officer over the issue.

 

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Lagos State Police Commissioner, CP Idowu Owohunwa, on Saturday ordered the removal of the DPO of Okokomaiko for his lack of supervision of his subordinates who extorted N100,000 from the phone dealer at the Alaba International Market.

The DPO’s removal order came after SaharaReporters exposed the atrocious conduct of some policemen from Okokomaiko police division.

 

However, despite the suspension of the DPO, the police are yet to return the money extorted from the businessman.

 

SaharaReporters was told that the DPO called the mobile phone dealer earlier on Sunday and threatened him.

 

He reportedly accused the victim of costing him his position.

 

Meanwhile, the young businessman is said to be afraid of what the DPO and his subordinates could do to him now.

 

SaharaReporters reported that the phone dealer identified as Onyinyechi Esther Anwusi was forced to transfer the N100,000 from his Access Bank account to the corrupt police officers after they labelled him a fraudster.

 

A copy of the transaction receipt of the said sum generated from the bank’s mobile application by the victim, which was obtained by SaharaReporters, showed that the money was received by Ndueso Okon Archibong with the account number 9550455342, PalmPay Limited.

The victim narrated that the police officers accosted and searched him without a warrant. He said he was subsequently forced to unlock his mobile phone but that they found nothing incriminating on the devise.

 

The officers thereafter forced him to write a statement under duress indicting himself as an internet fraudster, popularly known as a ‘Yahoo boy’ and made him pay N100,000.

 

A witness to the incident had told SaharaReporters, “This is coming a few days after men of the Nigeria Police Force, the same Okokomaiko division extorted a citizen of the sum of N31,000 for not having an ID card.”