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Five Policemen Arrested For Extorting N90,000 From Student
He was ordered to disembark from the vehicle, while other passengers were asked to continue their journey.
The Oyo State Police Command has arrested five of its officers who allegedly harassed and extorted N90,000 from a student identified simply as Ibrahim for his school fees along the RCC, Old Ogbomoso Road, Oyo State.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, who confirmed the development on Wednesday, said an investigation was ongoing.
It was gathered that the student was on his way to Lagos when he was confronted by the policemen.
He was ordered to disembark from the vehicle, while other passengers were asked to continue their journey. They reportedly took him to a nearby bush where they extorted N90,000 from him.
According to Osifeso “We have arrested and detained five policemen and we are waiting for Ibrahim to come and identify the policemen that allegedly did what he said they did to him out of those detained, and for him to also help us initiate the prosecution procedure against those guys through an orderly room trial.
“The money extorted from him has been recovered; we traced the operator and the endpoint of the account where the money was lodged. All that happened today.”