Three policemen, who allegedly extorted the
sum of N153,000 from a student of the Lagos State University, Hezekiah
Oluwaponmile, at gunpoint have been arrested.
Our correspondent gathered that the cops
were attached to the Owode-Egba Police Station, Siun, Ogun State.
The policemen allegedly accosted the victim
while he was on his way to Abeokuta from Ibadan and demanded N1m from him.
The incident happened on Saturday, April 24,
2021, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.
The victim alleged that the policemen, who
were on stop-and-search duty on the expressway stopped his vehicle and ordered
him to alight.
According to him, the cops forced him out of
the vehicle and asked him what he was doing for a living.
Oluwaponmile said, “I told them that I was a
student of LASU. They told me to unlock my phone, but I refused; they
threatened to kill me if I did not cooperate with them. They brought out a
shocker, so I obliged.
“They asked me how many bank accounts I had
and how much was in each of them. I told them I had two accounts with GTB and
Union Bank. So, I opened my phone due to the threat from them and upon going
through it, I was asked to pay the sum of N1m, but I told them I did not have
up to that amount.
“Later on, they asked me to open my bank
app, where they saw a balance of N288,000 and told me that they would collect
N250,000 out of it without telling me what I did wrong.
“I begged them that I needed the money for
some things, but they insisted on collecting N150,000.
“Then they asked me to give them my
Automated Teller Machine card; I denied having one, so they took me to a Paga
(Point of Sale) shop, which they have a connection with.
“The Paga man collected a fee of N3,000
after negotiating from N5,000. On a final note, I did a transfer of N153,000.”
When contacted, the Police Public Relations
Officer of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident.
Oyeyemi said, “We heard about the issue and
those policemen have been arrested.
“We have identified them and they have been arrested. They are currently undergoing trial now.” ,,
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