Lagos State Police command has summoned three officers for allegedly extorting N1 million from corps members in the Surulere area of the state
Video of the encounter between the corps members and officers had viral on X, on Thursday, 26th September, 2024
A social media user Oluyemi Fasipe who shared the videos, claimed the officers took N1m from the corps members.
Dear @BenHundeyin ,
Your officers today in Surulere extorted 1 million naira from 3 corps members. They were threatened with firearms, kidnapped, and taken to the KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU HOUSE AREA C POLICE COMMAND of the @LagosPoliceNG where they were robbed. Their offense was… pic.twitter.com/8nJeD0iIFq
— Olúyẹmí Fásípè AICMC (@YemieFash) September 26, 2024
In one of the videos, police officers were seen searching the car occupants’ documents but the situation later became heated, leading to more officers coming to the scene.
An officer was later spotted entering the car while asking them to stop filming the incident. He also barred them from calling their loved ones.
However, the spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin on his X handle said the officers involved in the incident have been summoned.
“The men have been summoned and their trial has commenced,” he wrote on X while responding to Fasipe’s post.
“We urge the complainants to visit the Complaint Response Unit at the State Headquarters to testify at the ongoing trial.”
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