Four Police Officers Arrested Over Extortion, Harassment Of 16-Year-Old

Lagos CP, Hakeem Odumosu

The Police Commissioner has ordered an immediate room trial of the officers
Says their action against the ongoing reforms in the Force

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The Lagos State Police Command said it has apprehended four errant police officers who allegedly harassed and extorted ₦70,000 from a 16-year-old student on Wednesday at NGAB Junction, Isheri Area of Lagos State.

The State’s Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said this in a statement signed on Friday by the Command’s spokesman, Olumuyiwa Adejobi.

The statement partly reads: “The pictures of the policemen caught in the acts of unprofessionalism and extortion, have gone viral on the social media.

“This attracted the Complaint Response Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Force Headquarters Abuja, and decided to track the policemen for necessary police action.

“After due interrogation, the policemen confessed to the crime and refunded the money to the student on bond, which forms the key credible evidence in the case.”

Odumosu said that the officers actions were counterproductive to the ongoing reform agenda of the IGP, Mohammed Adamu.

“I have ordered the orderly room trial of the inspectors with immediate effect so as to serve as deterrents to other criminally-minded police personnel in the command and beyond,” he added.

Odumosu said that the command would spread its tentacles in its continuous efforts to fight unprofessional and disgusting acts among the force’s personnel in Lagos State.

He also assured the general public of people-oriented and community-based policing styles in the State.

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