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April 12, 2024
The refund is coming after SaharaReporters reported that the policemen on mufti extorted N100,000 from Adekunle, in the morning hours when he was taking his girlfriend to school.
The Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has refunded the N100,000 some policemen extorted from one Rahmon Olamilekan Adekunle, a Nigerian returnee from Cyprus on Friday morning at the tunnel in Berger linking Magodo area.
The refund is coming after SaharaReporters reported that the policemen on mufti extorted N100,000 from Adekunle, in the morning hours when he was taking his girlfriend to school.
Adekunle confirmed the refund of the money by the police to SaharaReporters.
While thanking SaharaReporters for exposing the extortion, he said that after the report the police authorities later called him that the officers had been identified and the money had been recovered.
He said, "I just received the refund of the N100,000."
Adekunle, who contacted SaharaReporters shortly after the "robbery" by the Nigerian police officers, had explained that incident happened while he was taking his girlfriend who had exam in the morning to school.
He said that the policemen who were on mufti accosted him around some minutes to 7am, at the tunnel in Berger linking Magodo.
"They forcefully took my phone, after going through my phone, they discovered that I just returned to Nigeria; they forced me to transfer the sum of N100,000 to a Point of Sale (POS) operator.
"My girlfriend has a examination to take this morning and already they have seized my phone and I don't have any means to reach out to any of my family members or even the police authorities. So I had to transfer the N100,000 to a POS Operator there, which I don't know whether they came with the person.
"Because I don't want my girl to miss her exam, I had to pay the money and continue my journey. I have contacted the state Police Public Relations Officer SP Benjamin Hundeyin but he did not pick up his calls. I also sent him a text message but he is yet to respond.
"As I speak to you I don't know which station they (policemen) came from."
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