Four Police Inspectors Arrested For Extorting N70,000 From 16-Year-Old Student

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four Police Inspectors who allegedly harassed and extorted N70,000 from a 16-year-old student, simply identified as Segun, on January 18, 2021, at NGAB Junction, Isheri, Lagos State.

 

The student was in a Toyota Corolla car when he was accosted by the policemen.

 

The picture of the policemen had thereafter gone viral on social media.

 

This attracted the attention of the Complaint Response Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Force Headquarters, Abuja, which then led to the tracking of policemen for necessary police action.

 

The matter was subsequently referred to the Lagos State Police Command for further action.

 

The Police Inspectors arrested are Emmanuel Michael, Sunday Odubiyi, Lawrence Amedu, and Aroye Dickson.

 

A statement by the spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, said after due interrogation, the policemen confessed to the crime and refunded the N70,000 to the student, on bond.

 

 

 

Adejobi said this “forms the key credible evidence/exhibit in the case”.

 

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, has condemned the act of the Police Inspectors, which he said is detrimental to the image of the Police Force and counterproductive to the ongoing reform agenda of the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu.

 

Odumosu has ordered for the orderly room trial of the Inspectors with immediate effect so as to serve as a deterrent to other criminally-minded police personnel in the command and beyond.

 

He also warned officers and men in Lagos State that the “command will spread its tentacles in fighting against such criminal, unprofessional and disgusting act amongst police personnel in Lagos State”.

 

He also assured the general public of people-oriented and community-based policing styles in Lagos State, vowing that “justice will be done in Segun’s case”., has inaugurated a scheme for the distribution of 200,000 motorcycles on soft loan to interested police personnel.

 

At the inauguration of the scheme in Abuja on Thursday, Adamu said the initiative was to motivate the workforce and improve service delivery.

 

He said the scheme was being executed through the Nigeria Police Cooperative Multi-Purpose Society in collaboration with ROT-SHADE Global Resources Limited, a private firm.

 

According to the I-G, the initiative is another milestone in the efforts of the force to put the welfare of its personnel on the front burner.

 

Adamu said his conviction that a motivated workforce was necessary for quality service prompted his administration, since its inception, to initiate several schemes targeted at improving the welfare of police personnel across all ranks.

 

He added that his administration prioritized the promotion of police officers and men, executed an affordable housing scheme for junior personnel, facilitated loans at affordable interest rates, and delivered tricycles as empowerment means.

 

He urged beneficiaries of the scheme to abide by the terms and conditions of the package.

 

 

 

Dr. Bolufemi Rotimi, Managing Director, ROT-SHADE Global Resources Limited, said no society could have peace and accelerated development without security.

 

Rotimi said the scheme was designed to bring financial and logistic assistance to police officers and men working to secure lives and property.