Police Queries Six Officers Over Extortion

The Lagos State Police Command has summoned six policemen to its headquarters in Ikeja over an alleged extortion of N100,000 from a member of the public.

The command’s spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this  on Friday.

The complaint was tweeted at about 7.46 p.m., while many members of the public reacted to the post.

“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.

On Thursday, a member of the public, simply identified as Oluwagbadura, had on his verified Twitter handle, alleged that some policemen extorted him.

He claimed that around 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.

At 10.36 p.m., Oluwagbadura tweeted again to thank all that helped to broadcast his complaints.

“Update: First, thanks to everyone who contributed a tweet. I got my money back completely.

“Special thanks to @SavvyRinu, @BenHundeyin (the spokesman for police in Lagos), @segalink and the DPO, who was pretty nice,” he said.